Re: mailing list filters?

[Thomas Kuther <gimpel@sonnenkinder.org>]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:40:47 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:34 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > >On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:57 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
> > >wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>My suggestion is: reply with a challenge from any non-subscriber
> > >>post, and then (optionally) insert the sender in a whitelist so
> > >>s/he doesn't need to go through the challenge process at every
> > >>message. There is mailing list software out there that does that
> > >>-- is Sourceforge's among them?
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >Overkill and too annoying for the casual poster.
> > >
> > >We could knock out 90% of the spam by banning .gif and .jpg
> > >attachments.
> > >
> > >Lee
> > >  
> > >
> > I don't know, my instinct says that's overly optimistic. This
> > particular flood of spam happened to be comprised of an image
> > attachment, but there's LOTS of spam that's text-only. You can do
> > that, it sure is no harm, but I predict we'll be experiencing spam
> > floods again soon thereafter.
> > 
> 
> I don't think we need to get it all, I'm perfectly happy with a 90%
> S/N ratio.  But there are many for whom a single spam is too much.
> 
> Lee
> 

well it's like 90/10 S/N ratio, yes. 
My spamassassin runs hot with this list. *hint* :)
(thank god for it!)

Tom


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