RE: spam and debian-curiosa [ot]
The spam that arrives on the curiosa list is most often sent to most all
the debian lists -- or at least quite a few. So it's not just
debian-curiosa. As others have already suggested, use spamassassin. It
rarely fails me.
I am extremely curious to know about the 'slightly tweaked' scoring that
folks are using. I use the defaults from the debian package and seem to
do fine. I am thinking of installing it site wide. (~200 users) It seems
the genetic algorithm approach they use to determine the default scores
is very interesting and it would be hard to tune the rules beyond this
for better scoring for a large userbase. Maybe I should run the
algorithm on my own mail archives and compare it... Anyway are the rules
tweaked to match more spam or tweaked to find fewer false positives?
It does, however, seem that since this list is so low traffic, all that
ever gets talked about on here is the spam problem. It's quite possibly
the most generally offtopic list I've ever been on!
Anyway, not to be completely offtopic, I leave you to read about how we
are all living a lie: http://www.isham-research.com/unix.html
~John
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Richards [mailto:grumpy@cyber4.org]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 5:48 PM
To: listmaster@lists.debian.org; debian-curiosa@lists.debian.org
Subject: spam and debian-curiosa
I think I've had it with debian-curiosa. I get more spam from this list
then
everywhere else by and order of magnitude. I'm off. It's been fun, but
the
sprukers are cluttering my eyes.
I really, really, really suggest someone change the list to only accept
mail from members, otherwise debian-curiosa will become the junk pile of
the debian lists.
--
"may" rather than "can" to express permission appears to have been a
matter
of polite fashion, rather than accurate usage.
p. 151, Barbara Dykes, Grammar Made Easy: A Practical Guide
(1992 Hale & Ironmonger)
Mr Grumpy - More than you needed to know.
http://www.cyber4.org/grumpy
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