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Re: Spam filters (was Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS blah blah)



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On 04/06/08 15:09, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
>>> can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list??  Ive been
>>> getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long.
>>> ~  Thank you.
>> Tbird/Icedove has a spam filter.  Are you using it?
> 
>   A client-side filter isn't the best solution, and we should always
>  strive to stop this stuff at source, or failing that at the
>  list-server.
> 
>   If you filter spam at the client you waste bandwidth downloading
>  messages which are junk.  That is a real issue for people who have
>  to pay by the Mb of content, or who have minimal traffic allowances.

But but it filters out most of what the server-side filters miss.

(I know this because I don't get 10 debian-user spams per day, and I
have client-side spamassassin.)

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

We want... a Shrubbery!!
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