Re: Spam on Alsa-devel.

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:25, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:43, Carsten Koch wrote:
> > It appears I am receiving more spam via Alsa-devel these days
> > than via the rest of my mail together (I am using this
> > http://angel.net/~nic/spam-x.html against spam, which is very
> > effective, but totally helpless against spam posted to a
> > list I am subscribed to).
> > 
> > I wonder why the list accepts postings from non-subscribers.
> > 
> 
> We have to allow nonsubscribers to post because the kernel developers
> need to be able to cc: alsa-devel.  The problem is inadequate spam
> filtering on the server.  I would imagine Jaroslav has notified
> SourceForge of the problem.
> 
> In the meantime, just filter the messages on spam score.  SF's mail
> servers do assign a spam score, but the cutoff threshold is too low.

Actually if you look at the headers of the spam, there's an
X-Spam-Report header that gives you a URL to report problems with the
spamassassin filtering.  The last spam I got has a spam score of only
2.1, so the system definitely is not perfect.  Just report the problem
using the URL in the X-Spam-Report header.

Lee




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