Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:58, Chris Howie wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it
> > as an
> > opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter
> > out
> > the mailing list spam.
>
> Give your address to one of those "refer 10 friends and get a free xbox"
> sites. I gave them a disposable email address *once* and that address has
> eaten over 13,000 messages since 2005-09-28. (For those of you who are not
> math geeks, that's ~16 messages per day.) A different disposable address
> given to a similar site has eaten over 3,200 messages since the same date,
> which is ~4 per day.
If you can't help with the problem I have, why reply with some sort of pisch
take.
I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that
occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works fine
with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to deal with
mailing list spam.
I do not think that spam is funny, and something to laugh at. I check my
wastebin each day after downloading the mail, just to see that no ham has
been put there by bogofilter. Most of it has do with getting a bigger male
member, expressed in a variety of ways, some of which are extremely crude,
and quite obscene. Often I just empty the trash without checking it, as the
spam that's there is to say the least "sick".
Perhaps I should just keep this problem on the bogofilter list if the best
that can come from the Debian list is what you have posted.
I use Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, along with Fedora installs, and other distro's.
Apart from FC2 that I'm emailing from I find the Debian ones, and Archlinux
the most stable. I'm upgrading Sarge at the moment, and am surprised that I'm
not only getting security updates, but also updated packages, so that's a
darned site better than Fedora are doing.
Rant over.
Nigel.
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