From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] spam filtering
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:17:29 -0500
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Scott,

I downloaded 2.0.13 since 2.0.11 wasn't
available.  The file
	$MAILMAN/Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py
where MAILMAN is your install directory
is a hard coded spam filter file.  Adding
an RE for html or anything other combination
of incantations seems easy.  The current code
does an OR (if any RE matches, fail).  I would
suggest adding an AND mechanism such that
any message lacking 'RE:' in the subject
header gets sent through a rigorous set
of RE filters (html, nigerian, etc).  I can
come up with something if you don't want to.

Btw, that's some nasty Python.  I hope it's
not representative of the language.

Cheers,

Sam


On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Sam wrote:

>
> > As Scott said yesterday, the list uses Mailman.
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
> > As he also said, he can't do anything that isn't a stock
> > Mailman option.  If you want to suggest something,
> > please look in the documentation first.
> >
>
> Actually, what he said was anything that wasn't a stock
> option "would require actual work."  I took that to
> mean we're looking for a least effort solution to the
> problem, not that we're handcuffed by mailman.  I
> think it's already been stated that the stock features
> aren't sufficient.  Before I go hacking, which version
> are we using?
>
> Sam
>
>
>