spam on this list

[khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare)]

> Sorry, I know the spam is a hassle.  It would be nice to have a 
> moderator who can screen everything, but that takes too much time and 
> delays emails.  Right now there is a procmail script which tags likely
> 
> spam and puts in a X-SBClass: header.  If it is followed by 'Spam',
> then it is almost certainly spam, if it is followed by 'Blocked', then
> it scores high as being potential spam.  You should be able to set
> some rules in your mail client to throw those emails into a seperate
> folder.  It's not bullet proof (some legit mails get tagged wrong, and
> vice versa), but it seems to be about 95% accurate in my experience.
> 
> BTW- If there are some recommendations on better alternatives, let me
> know.

Actually, I tend to find that it works rather well. I have filtered on
X-SBClass = Blocked and, even if it rejects some legitimate posts, it
is generally efficient. I think that X-SBClass = Spam are already
rejected at higher level ? I don't remember seeing anything like this in
the mails I receive.

And, Markus, believe me, there is a lot less spam now that there used to
be ;) (but of course I'd like to see spam eradicated from Earth... what
times are we living now, seriously; looks to me like the middle-age of
Internet).

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/