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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> the stuff, I'm now using SpamAssassin connected via SpamAssassMilter
> to Sendmail which seems to be quite effective

Could you show us your configuration bits for both Gnus and sendmail?
A cookbook would be appreciated.

I have extensive anti-spam split rules which are reasonably effective,
but the spammer crowd is working diligently to come up with
ever-harder cases to trap.  The days of simply tossing "anything
lacking To or Cc naming myself" are long gone.