Re: Spam (Re: Urgent Investment)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:37:44PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>
> Matt> The only measure that seems to work is restricting list postings to
> Matt> subscribers only. Unfortunately, this is also a major inconvenience for
> Matt> those who use the list legitimately.
>
> I would not go so far as to say that is the _only_ measure
> that works. I have had very few leaks, using a combination of
> mailagent, incorporating spamassassin and razor feedback, along with
> a home grown spammers lists.
I looked into spamassassin shortly after I sent that message, and I am
pretty pleased with it (though it seems to regularly mis-flag messages on
debian-bugs-dist due to #131317).
But the messages still need to be filtered, and it can't be 100% (or even
99%) accurate, so that dropping messages on the server side is not an
option, and the human subscribers would still have to sift through the
messages.
> I would hate to loose the often valuable input of people not
> members of this list who sometimes post here.
Agreed.
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- mdz
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