Re: About spam (was: Usenet Group dead?)

[Mike Buland <mike@geekgene.com>]

On Monday 31 March 2008 06:20:11 pm Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Mike Buland wrote:
> > So far it seems that the e-mail explaining that I will be removed
> > satisfies ezmlm that I exist, and I keep getting valuable
> > e-mail...although sometimes I worry that I'm missing something.  I don't
> > suppose anyone knows any clever way around that problem?
>
> Put a decent spam filter in front of ezmlm. If my smtp daemon won't accept
> the mail because it doesn't have a Date header, list.skarnet.org's daemon
> can do it. If my spamassassin can reject mail because it scores 50 on the
> spam scale, it's so obviously spam that it doesn't need to be relayed.
>
> But if Laurent is not very concerned, then for now we can probably live
> with the slightly extra load.

I must have phrased that poorly...I'm running spamassasin on my e-mail server, 
receiving e-mail from the supervision@list.skarnet.org ezmlm server (I think 
it's ezmlm).  So e-mail coming into any of my personal e-mail lists are 
filtered, but so are e-mails coming through this list.  That's the problem, 
ezmlm at list.skarnet.org thinks I don't exist periodically, since spam 
bounces. :)

Not a big deal, it seems to figure it out on it's own, just thought I would 
mention it.

--Mike