Re: thoughts on spam

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)  on Mon, 05 Nov 2001
| Which is nice, since spam never comes through mailing lists.

| Can this *please* be taken off this list now?

Since I seem to have misrepresented spambouncer here, no, at least not
yet.  My mistake is the implication that the whitelist for mailing lists
will allow all spam through.  It won't.  It will be marked "Bulk" in the
headers, which may or may not be useful for split methods.

How to pull this back on topic for Gnus?  spambouncer creates X-SBClass and
X-SBRule headers for all messages that it processes.  SBClass can be OK,
Bulk, Blocked, Admin or Spam.  OK means it passed without any spammish
content.  Bulk comes from mailing lists.  Blocked is something that
triggerd a pattern match such as disclaimers; the associated X-SBRule
header can be checked for details in a fancy split.  Admin is stuff that
appears to have come from an automated source, mailer-daemon, cron, etc.
Spam is any message that is obviously from a known spammer or spam house,
sent by a known spam mailer, achieves a sufficiently high pattern match
score, etc.  Spam includes mail that originates from an easilly configured
list of blackholes and DULs.

Huzzah, full circle!  spambouncer makes filtering with Gnus easy!
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