[Beowulf] Beowulf Digest, Vol 102, Issue 19

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>    1. Re: RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ? (Prentice Bisbal)
>    2. Re: RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ? (Prentice Bisbal)
>    3. Re: RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ?
>       (graham.mullier at syngenta.com)
>    4. Re: RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ? (Jeff Johnson)
>    5. Re: RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ? (Prentice Bisbal)
>    6. NFSoIB and SRP benchmarking (holway at th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de)
>    7. [hpc-announce] CFP: DISCS-2012 Workshop at SC'12 with Cluster
>       Computing journal special issue (Chen, Yong)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:43:31 -0400
> From: Prentice Bisbal <prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ?
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Message-ID: <50378503.60007 at rutgers.edu>
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> I'm all for this. I always thought this was standard policy for every
> mailing list. I don't see any legitimate reason to post to a list you
> don't subscribe to, since if you're not a subscriber, you're not going
> to see the replies to your post.
>
> Prentice
>
> On 08/23/2012 09:06 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to solicit opinions from list members on changing the policy
> > of the list on messages from non-subscribers from the current default
> > of holding them for moderation to the position of rejecting them (with
> > an explanatory message).
> >
> > The reason is that currently us new list admins get many dozens of
> > spams a day being held for moderation and it would be very hard to
> > spot a legitimate message (from either a new subscriber or from a new
> > member who is having messages held for moderation) amongst them.
> >
> > It seems fairer to me for legitimate non-members to get an email
> > saying that their post has been rejected because they're not a member,
> > but pointing them to the web page to subscribe, rather than just a
> > message saying it's been held for moderation and then nothing (if it
> > gets missed).
> >
> > It's also fairer to new members who are under moderation (as spammers
> > do sign up to lists too) as their messages won't get missed in the
> > general flood of non-member spam.
> >
> > This is how all the other Mailman lists I run are configured and it's
> > not caused issues or complaints there.
> >
> > Thoughts please!
> >
> > cheers,
> > Chris
> > - --
> >   Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
> >   VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
> >   Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
> >   http://www.vlsci.org.au/      http://twitter.com/vlsci
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:51:49 -0400
> From: Prentice Bisbal <prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ?
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Message-ID: <503786F5.9050701 at rutgers.edu>
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> Doesn't the subscription confirmation e-mail kind of handle this
> already? I suspect spammers send from random or fictitious addresses and
> don't check (or even receive) email sent to those addresses, so it's
> unlikely they'll be confirmed as subscribers to the mailing list.
>
> I think Greg raises an excellent point that we shouldn't reply to
> spammers. Perhaps we should just silently ignore posts from
> non-subscribers. If they are real humans, they should figure it out
> easily enough that they need to subscribe to post. Most mailing lists
> have a web page advertising the list, with instructions on how to
> subscribe to the list and list policy, such as needing to subscribe in
> order to post. I think that should be adequate to keep spam away but not
> real humans.
>
> Besides, don't we hate when people post something that clearly indicates
> they didn't RTFM? ;)
>
> --
> Prentice
>
>
> On 08/24/2012 06:47 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> > Maybe we should have a
> >
> > 'Please send us a brief email explaining why you would like to join
> > the list so that we know that your not a spammer"
> >
> >
> > 2012/8/24 Christopher Samuel<samuel at unimelb.edu.au>:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'd like to solicit opinions from list members on changing the policy
> >> of the list on messages from non-subscribers from the current default
> >> of holding them for moderation to the position of rejecting them (with
> >> an explanatory message).
> >>
> >> The reason is that currently us new list admins get many dozens of
> >> spams a day being held for moderation and it would be very hard to
> >> spot a legitimate message (from either a new subscriber or from a new
> >> member who is having messages held for moderation) amongst them.
> >>
> >> It seems fairer to me for legitimate non-members to get an email
> >> saying that their post has been rejected because they're not a member,
> >> but pointing them to the web page to subscribe, rather than just a
> >> message saying it's been held for moderation and then nothing (if it
> >> gets missed).
> >>
> >> It's also fairer to new members who are under moderation (as spammers
> >> do sign up to lists too) as their messages won't get missed in the
> >> general flood of non-member spam.
> >>
> >> This is how all the other Mailman lists I run are configured and it's
> >> not caused issues or complaints there.
> >>
> >> Thoughts please!
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Chris
> >> - --
> >>   Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
> >>   VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
> >>   Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
> >>   http://www.vlsci.org.au/      http://twitter.com/vlsci
> >>
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> >> kYsAn3pa2/pWewv0wJ9Ee7pAJessq3iR
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:56:53 +0200
> From: <graham.mullier at syngenta.com>
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ?
> To: <samuel at unimelb.edu.au>, <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Message-ID:
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> Gentlethings
>
> While you're noting people who aren't spammers but who are currently
> locked out despite being subscribers, I'm another. I seem never to have
> been flagged as 'OK' so gradually (this is over some years) came to regard
> the list as an interesting thing to watch but not something to participate
> in.
>
> Chris, while it would be helpful for me to be flagged as OK to post (for
> me), what about the several or many others who are stuck in the same sort
> of limbo? Is there a way to identify them, open up the list, and breathe a
> bit more life into it?
>
> Regards
> Graham
>
> Graham Mullier | Head Information Connection & Design, R&DIS | R&D
> architecture CoE lead
> graham.mullier at syngenta.com | Syngenta, Jealott's Hill International
> Research Station, Bracknell, RG42 6EY, UK
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Samuel
> Sent: 24 August 2012 08:55
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ?
>
> On 08/24/2012 10:11 PM, J?rg Sa?mannshausen wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> Hiya!
>
> > I am one of the many who cannot post to the list despite being a member
> of it
> > for some years. :-/
>
> Well I spotted your message in the queue and let it through, so welcome!
>
> > I think the policy was that only members can post (good thing in my
> opinion)
> > and new members are moderated.
> > I am moderating an email list here as well and unfortunately the list's
> email
> > address got to the outside world. I do get some spam but it is something
> I can
> > cope with.
> > Once a new member has established themselves as not being a spammer (and
> here
> > I really mean the type of: buy vi online! I mean, I got vi installed on
> my
> > machines so why shall I buy it? :D ) you can remove the moderation flag.
> If
> > that member then becomes a spammer or troll you can them put back into
> > moderation only.
>
> That's precisely how the list works at the moment, in that new
> subscribers have posts moderated at first and that flag gets cleared
> after a while.  The only problem is that the list has been running on
> autopilot for quite a while (I don't know how long) and so people
> haven't been getting unmoderated or having posts approved.
>
> > Does that sound like a good idea? We do not have to rule out the usual
> anti-
> > spam mechanisms here.
>
> Agreed, we need defence in depth on this. :-)
>
> > My two cents from somebody who got put on the observer chair :D
>
> You are now unmoderated, so you can get off that chair now. ;-)
>
> cheers!
> Chris
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:30:56 -0700
> From: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson at aeoncomputing.com>
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ?
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
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> I think I've seen another list or site do that very thing.
>
> Oh wait, now I remember. It is inside the systemimager source somewhere.
>
>
> On 8/24/12 9:10 AM, Joe Landman wrote:
> > I am thinking we need a Monty Python Captcha
> >
> > "What is your name"
> >
> > "What is your quest"
> >
> > "What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow"
> >
> > ...
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:12:35 -0400
> From: Prentice Bisbal <prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] RFC: Restrict posting to subscribers only ?
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Message-ID: <5037C413.1040407 at rutgers.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> African or European?
>
>
> On 08/24/2012 12:10 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
> > I am thinking we need a Monty Python Captcha
> >
> > "What is your name"
> >
> > "What is your quest"
> >
> > "What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow"
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> > On 08/24/2012 09:01 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> >> On 08/24/2012 10:03 PM, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does someone have a figure of how many non-subscribers posts we are
> >>> talking about ? I have the impression that lately I've seen only
> >>> messages coming from "regulars". If non-subscribers post very little,
> >>> then such a change would not be very annoying IMHO.
> >> Well in the 6 hours since I last checked at work there have were over 30
> >> new messages waiting to be processed, of which 1 was from a subscriber
> >> still moderated and 1 was a legitimate post from a non-member
> >> (presumably subscribed at a different address as they replied to my list
> >> post).
> >>
> >> The other 30 plus were just spam.
> >>
> >>> OTOH, I hope that archives (wherever they are) remain publicly
> available.
> >> I don't think anyone is planning to change those at all.
> >>
> >> http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/
> >>
> >>> We should be very thankful to Don Becker for doing a wonderful job
> >>> with the list for many years :)
> >> Oh indeed!  Very much so...
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >> Chris
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:22:16 +0200
> From: holway at th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de
> Subject: [Beowulf] NFSoIB and SRP benchmarking
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
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> Hello Beowulf 2.0
>
> I've just started playing with NFSoIB to provide super fast backend
> storage for a bunch of databases that we look after here. Oracle and
> Nexenta are both sending me ZFS based boxes to test and I hope to compare
> the performance and stability of these with the Netapp (formally lsi
> engenio) E5400.
>
> This will be the first time I will be getting into serious storage
> benchmarking. Does anyone have any interesting tests they would like to
> run or and experience performing these kinds of tests?
>
> I have 4 HP G8 boxes with 96GB ram each QDR IB and 10G ethernet as
> consumers.
>
> I will also be testing the performance of KVM and Virtuozzo (commercial
> version of OpenVZ) which is a kernel sharing virtualization similar to BSD
> Jails.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:21:20 +0000
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>                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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>           The International Workshop on
> Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS)
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>           November 16th, 2012, Salt Lake City
>               In conjunction with the
>  2012 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC'12)
>
>                  *********************
>                  Scope of the Workshop
>                  *********************
> High-performance computing (HPC) is a major strategic tool
> for science, engineering, and industry. Existing HPC systems,
> however, are largely designed and developed for computation-
> intensive applications with a computing-centric paradigm. With
> the emerging and timely needs of supporting data-intensive
> scientific discovery and innovations, there is a need of
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>                    ******************
>                    Topics of Interest
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>        applications
>          # Data-centric system architectures
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>          # System area networks
>          # Power efficient systems for data intensive applications
>     -> Programming models for supporting data intensive
>        applications
>          # Data-centric programming models
>          # MPI extensions for data intensive applications
>          # GAS/PGAS/OpenMP programming model extensions for data-
>            intensive applications
>          # New programming languages/methodologies for data-
>            intensive HPC
>     -> Runtime systems for supporting data intensive applications
>          # Communication systems for supporting data intensive
>            applications
>          # Data compression and deduplication
>          # Caching and prefetching
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>          # Data mining and knowledge discovery tools
>          # Computational, mathematical and statistical techniques
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>          # Data visualization techniques and tools
>
>                       ***************
>                       Important Dates
>                       ***************
>     -> Paper Submission: September 8th, 2012
>     -> Author Notification: October 22nd, 2012
>     -> Workshop Date: November 16th, 2012
>     -> Camera-Ready Copy: December 7th, 2012
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>                    ***********************
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