Re: nigerian scam in debian-devel...
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:25:31PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> > > and enable razor support, which would eliminate even more spam.
> >
> > Razor has been known to catch things like Debian security advisories ...
> > I'm not sure that using it on the Debian lists is a great idea.
> > SpamAssassin is much less vulnerable to random people messing about with
> > its idea of what is spam and what isn't.
>
> Beeing listed in Razor gives 3.0 points. So beeing in razor itself would
> not result in a message beeing rejected.
That's quite a large fraction of the current threshold of 4.7 though. At
least on debian-user posts from newbies that hit over 1.7 are not
uncommon. (Although maybe they'd be relatively unlikely to show up in
Razor. Hm. I'd at least be inclined to suggest that the threshold should
be raised a bit if we were using Razor ...)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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