Re: listmaster update
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:27:07AM +1100, listmaster@lists.debian.org wrote:
> A secondary goal is to reduce (remove!) spam on the mailing lists.
>
> To that end we've already put in place a few measures (thoughtfully
> suggested by Santiago Villa) such as:
>
> - crossassassin
> This checks to see if a message has been posted too a
> number of lists within a short amount of time. Since the
> 8th Jan this has prevented about ~6000 messages being
> sent. About 30 of those were legitimate (half of those
> were [un]subscribes). I'm working to reduce the number
> of legitimate emails that caught to 0.
>
> - razor checks / spamassassin modifications
> Some reweighting has gone on to get things marked as
> problems that might ordinarily slip through. This work
> is still on-going
Would you consider releasing your work as a user package that could
work as an implemented mail filter? I would say, if it's effective
for the Debian lists and bugs it's probably _extremely_ effective for
individual users.
--
"The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what
we should do with software engineers. They put the designer
under the bridge, and then they marched over it."
-- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
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