spam sucks

spam sucks

[Steven Enderle]

Can't you just turn off forwarding mails from people not subscribed to 
this list?

Thanks

Steven

Re: spam sucks

[Peter Stephenson]

Steven Enderle wrote:
> Can't you just turn off forwarding mails from people not subscribed to 
> this list?

Then we don't get bug reports, which is bad.  It would be much better to
have a filter.

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Re: spam sucks

[rik]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:41:22PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Then we don't get bug reports, which is bad.  It would be much better
> to have a filter.

SpamAssassin has so far caught the vast majority of them. I have it
setup to work through procmail, which mailman can also do, and is
aparently a good idea.

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Re: spam sucks

[Clint Adams]

> SpamAssassin has so far caught the vast majority of them. I have it
> setup to work through procmail, which mailman can also do, and is
> aparently a good idea.

Still, spamassassin tags plenty of false positives, lets actual spam
through, and requires someone to look over its shoulder to resolve the
former problem, at least.

Re: spam sucks

[Geoff Wing]

Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org> typed:
:> SpamAssassin has so far caught the vast majority of them. I have it
:> setup to work through procmail, which mailman can also do, and is
:> aparently a good idea.
: Still, spamassassin tags plenty of false positives, lets actual spam
: through, and requires someone to look over its shoulder to resolve the
: former problem, at least.

One point here: the users list and workers list have _never_ had a valid
email message only composed of html.  All messages I receive like that
are put into a (very) low priority reading queue (just in case someone
does send such an unlikely beast).

For people using procmail, just insert a bitbucket recipe for them.
Simplistic version below:

 :0:		# dump the rubbish sent through zsh lists
 * ^Mailing-List: contact zsh-
 * ^Content-Type: (text/html|multipart/alternative)
 /dev/null

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Re: spam sucks

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 24, 12:31am, Clint Adams wrote:
} 
} Still, spamassassin tags plenty of false positives, lets actual spam
} through, and requires someone to look over its shoulder to resolve the
} former problem, at least.

This is _way_ off-topic for zsh-users, but ...

I've been running spamassassin for several months now and my rate of false
positives is close to zero -- it's definitely zero for messages on zsh
lists.  My overall false negative rate since mid-June is about 5%, false
positive is about 0.1%, though I did have to do some score tweaking to get
there (every new SA release has a few oddball scores).

While I was running SA on my ISP mail machine I used a logrotate script
for looking-over-its-shoulder; mailed me a summary every day and rotated
each daily spambox into oblivion after 2 weeks.  I quit doing that when I
got DSL and had to start running SA on my home machine, but I still have
the script if anyone wants it.

(Apparently I get, on average, about 19 spams and 0.9 viruses per day.
I'd never actually computed that before.)

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