Greetings,
As some of you may have noticed, the NetBSD mailing lists have been

configured to selectively moderate postings originating from the

"openbsd.org" domain. This rule was instated to protect the NetBSD

mailing lists from abuse or denial of service attacks by an OpenBSD

developer (Theo De Raadt), who some time ago threatened to attack

the NetBSD project machines. In a reaction to this threat, domains

under his control were blackholed and moderation of the mailing

lists was activated.
Unfortunately this kind of moderation had the unfortunate side

effect of impeding communication between OpenBSD and NetBSD developers

(unnecessary rejection due to moderator absense, approval delays,

etc.). It was not our intent; it was assumed that most OpenBSD

developers would not post from their @openbsd.org addresses, just

as most NetBSD developers do not use their @netbsd.org addresses

to send mail.
At this point in time, we have decided that the inconvenience to the

OpenBSD developers greatly outweighs the risk of postings in poor

taste from a single individual, thus we are removing the selective

moderation against the "openbsd.org" domain effective immediately.

Please note that the NetBSD mailing lists have always been moderated

against spam since they allow postings from non-members. Such

moderation will remain in place.
We would like to remind our mailing list participants, that they

should construct sentences with greater care, refrain from using

foul language, and stop using sentences that can be taken as threats

or insults.
If anyone is found to abuse our mailing lists, we will moderate

his postings to the lists and announce the moderation to that

individual.
Christos Zoulas

(for NetBSD core)