Re: Reducing spam on alsa-devel

[Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>]

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 15:09 -0600, Eric Shattow wrote:
>  
>
>>I agree that the spam level on alsa-devel is highly rediculous. I
>>stopped reading it because i have to sift through too much
>>non-content.
>>    
>>
>
>The spam has been drastically reduced from several months ago.  Maybe
>whatever filter was applied could be dialed up a bit?
>
>Do you notice any pattern in the spam scores (see headers) of the
>messages that get through?
>
>Lee
>
>  
>

Well, I have filters on my own system that reject messages being delivered
for alsa-devel if they look too much like spam.

A lot of these are private rules I wrote myself.

But every once in a while I'll see a message that should have been rejected
by a standard SA install but wasn't...

Could have to do with the custom scoring or with the way that
auto-whitelists
work...

You also might not have a complete SA install, with SPF turned on (for
instance).

I could share my rules, but it would have to be out-of-band, since any
spammer
could then look at the list archives and figure out how to get around them.

Hence my comment about wanting to reach the list admins directly.

-Philip




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