* spam sucks
@ 2002-09-23 11:48 Steven Enderle
2002-09-23 12:41 ` Peter Stephenson
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From: Steven Enderle @ 2002-09-23 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Can't you just turn off forwarding mails from people not subscribed to
this list?
Thanks
Steven
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* Re: spam sucks
2002-09-23 11:48 spam sucks Steven Enderle
@ 2002-09-23 12:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-09-23 23:31 ` rik
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Stephenson @ 2002-09-23 12:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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
2002-09-23 12:41 ` Peter Stephenson
@ 2002-09-23 23:31 ` rik
2002-09-24 4:31 ` Clint Adams
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From: rik @ 2002-09-23 23:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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
2002-09-23 23:31 ` rik
@ 2002-09-24 4:31 ` Clint Adams
2002-09-24 5:03 ` Geoff Wing
2002-09-24 7:37 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Clint Adams @ 2002-09-24 4:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rik; +Cc: zsh-users
> 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.
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* Re: spam sucks
2002-09-24 4:31 ` Clint Adams
@ 2002-09-24 5:03 ` Geoff Wing
2002-09-24 7:37 ` Bart Schaefer
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Geoff Wing @ 2002-09-24 5:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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
Regards,
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Zsh Stuff : <gcw@zsh.org>
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* Re: spam sucks
2002-09-24 4:31 ` Clint Adams
2002-09-24 5:03 ` Geoff Wing
@ 2002-09-24 7:37 ` Bart Schaefer
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bart Schaefer @ 2002-09-24 7:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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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