Re: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts

[Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>]

>>>>> "David" == David Ford <david+hb@blue-labs.org> writes:

David> Considering that Bayesian filters are useless against the new
David> spam that is proliferating these days, that's laughable.  Spam
David> now comes with a good 5-10K of random dictionary words.

Well if thats the case, then I wonder why the random word spams
stopped getting through my filters after I spent the appropriate time
training my Bayesian filters. I must have done something that made the
spammers laugh so hard they didn't bother spamming me anymore.

David> If you can't handle clicking on a link to authorize your email,
David> then I'm not interested in your email. If that tiny few seconds
David> of effort is a waste of your time, then writing your email to
David> me was also a waste of your time.

Well now we're getting to the laughable part: by expecting people to
'click on a link you obviously assume that everybody uses a GUI mail
client. Guess what, I don't have the patience for that. So guess what,
having to launch a web browser and copy-pasting a random link into it
in order to send you email makes me uninterested in mailing you in the
first place.

David> Getting well over 900 spams a day on average, almost double on
David> mondays, just isn't my cup of tea.  There is no one solution to
David> spam.  I pre-filter with spamassassin using all it's tools,
David> anything scoring high automatically gets /dev/nulled.  Those
David> include bayesian, pattern matches, DNSBL, etc. Next I attempt
David> to filter viruses and the like.  The remainder goes through
David> TMDA.

Maybe you should consider using it properly, guess what it does work.

David> Hmm, 900 spams in my mailbox, or half a dozen due to lists.
David> I'll take the second.

600 spams in my spambox over the last 48 hours, _1_ in my inbox, guess
that speaks for itself.

'nuff said, back to spending time on real issues, such as fixing
kernel bugs.

Jes