Re: nigerian scam in debian-devel...
On Friday 28 June 2002 11:44 am, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:34:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:25:31PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:44:30PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > > For the message I'm replying to, I get:
> > > >
> > > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.7 required=5.0
> > > > tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,PLING,US_DOLLARS_3,US_DOLLARS,SUPERLONG_LINE,
> > > >RCVD_IN_RFCI version=2.20
> > > >
> > > > which means we could eliminate even more spam if we used a more
> > > > recent spamassassin version (for example, the one in woody).
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> I would agree that it would be bad to use razor on mail sent _BY_ the
> lists. But mail sent _TO_ the lists could be checked by Razor before
> being distributed fairly safely.
>
What's the difference? Somebody (or some program) has to be responsible for
sending DSAs to -security before it's sent to the subscribers.
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