Re: why does reiserfs list get so much spam?

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

£ukasz Mierzwa wrote:
> Dnia Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:40:22 +0200, Gregory Maxwell
> <gmaxwell@gmail.com> napisa³:
> 
>> On 9/16/05, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@mch.one.pl> wrote:
>>
>>> yeah, but it is to be used by the end-user.
>>>
>>> the archive will be still filled with spam.
>>>
>>> not everyone who wants to know about reiser subscribes to the list; most
>>> of the people would just use the archives.
>>
>>
>> I actually subbed to the list because I was frustrated by spam in the
>> archive.
>> Whomever runs the archive should at least just pipe it through spam
>> assassin. If some legitimate messages are lost from the web archive it
>> could not be worse than what we have now, an archive made nearly
>> useless from excessive spam.
>>
> 
> If You will look in the headers of messages that You get from this list
> You will see that there is spamassassin running on thebsh.namesys.com,
> it's just that it is not configured good enough.

Can spamassassin be configured "good" enough?

I use dspam:

http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/

There are some articles about why dspam has a fundamentally better
design than spamassassin, and why in general statistical filters beat
manual-rule-based ones like spamassassin.