Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:28:12 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "C. Kukulies" <kuku@www.kukulies.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spambouncer tags much freebsd list mail as spam Message-ID: <20031102212812.GA51732@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200311021559.hA2FxTjn003915@www.kukulies.org> References: <200311021559.hA2FxTjn003915@www.kukulies.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:59:29PM +0100, C. Kukulies wrote: > I installed the spambouncer.org procmail script and before I was switching > the behaviour from SILENT to COMPLAIN I took a look at my spam.incoming folder > and found a lot of messages from freebsd-bugs and freebsd-mobile in there. > > Both lists are not directed to folders prior to spambouncer coming into effect > so they are trapped by spambouncer and I suspect that other freebsd lists > would be trapped as well. > > Anyone experienced similar? Many anti-spam packages need to be tuned to avoid classifying non-spam messages as spam. Depending on the software, sometimes it isn't possible to avoid a significant false positive rate, but a good spam filter (e.g. bogofilter) is one that doesn't have this characteristic. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/pXbsWry0BWjoQKURAvL0AKCKyTv3As21HB0nrYlH1lKh39+E8wCeLSop UzTY4jwXw2HywYrTzkLDIAo= =SlSC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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