From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44148 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: (Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Spam spam spam spam spam Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 22:28:34 -0500 Organization: Kippona Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <873cycnnvh.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> References: <87adsqxayl.fsf@enberg.org> <87bsd6dklh.fsf@enberg.org> Reply-To: Chris Beggy NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017891018 12629 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2002 03:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 03:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16sxx3-0003Ha-00 for ; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 05:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16sxvp-0002RC-00; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:29:01 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:29:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA11452 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:28:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22509 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2002 03:28:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22504 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2002 03:28:41 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (root@207.8.195.148) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 2002 03:28:41 -0000 Original-Received: from lackawana.kippona.com (nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Kippona) with ESMTP id g343Sdtd012327 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lackawana.kippona.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit/Kippona) id g343SduO012326; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:28:39 -0500 X-Reply-To: Chris Beggy Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: lackawana.kippona.com 1017890916 10997 207.8.195.148 (4 Apr 2002 03:28:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@kippona.com X-gpgkeyid: 0x8060510A X-fingerprint: 6012 F8F8 29B3 67E4 0604 BCD2 F882 88AE 8060 510A Cancel-Lock: sha1:33DAGnQQ5VoKWZVz8Jekgyw7X5U= Original-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44148 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44148 Lloyd Zusman writes: > "Jason R. Mastaler" writes: > >> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >> >>> I think TMDA is a perfectly good alternative, but I don't think it's >>> for everybody. >> >> Very true. I wrote TMDA for the same reason - because what was out >> there wasn't for me. Not effective enough, too time consuming, risk >> of false positives too high. >> >> Given that the UCE problem isn't going away any time soon, it's nice >> that we now have lots of alternative countermeasures to choose from. >> >> Cheers. > > Agreed. And now, I'm using two of these countermeasures > simultaneously: SpamAssassin and TMDA. Thanks to prompting from this thread, I found SpamAssassin can also be used on the mail server with sendmail + spamass-milter, written by Georg Greve. I'm running it now, with results superior to the dnsbl checks I had been running. Chris