Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:59:48 -0400 From: "martes" <martes@mgwigglesworth.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamassassin anyone??? Message-ID: <0000054941@mail.mgwigglesworth.com> References: <1240615371.6029.34.camel@localhost> <20090425022227.GB79909@in-addr.com>
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Sorry if this seems like a blinded assumption, however, whenever someone=20= asks about the origin of explicit spam, such as the anti-semetic stuff that wa= s posting to the list from an obviously mangled header source, someone alwa= ys brings up that the lists are not proctared, as if there is not any manage= ment at all, and such obvious garbage is just going to post due to lack of supervision, or spam protocals... =20 Thanks for the reply. >Fri Apr 24 2009 22:22:27 EDT from Gary Palmer to Martes Wigglesworth =20 >Subject: Re: Spamassassin anyone??? > >On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:22:51PM -0400, Martes Wigglesworth wrote: > >>> Greetings list. >>> >>> I was just wondering, why don't they just run spamassassin on the >>> freebsd lists servers????? I would cut down on spam, and I doubt wou= ld >>> be any overhead if it were simply updated. >> > >As far as I am aware, they do run SpamAssassin on the listserv box. >And also as far as I'm aware, if they were NOT running SA, you'd >likely see upwards of a hundred spam messages a day getting through. > >Note that no A/S technology has a 100% catch rate, and as the volume >of spam goes up, the volume of false negatives must also go up >and hence you're seeing more spam. Its just the current round in >the never-ending war against spam. > >Regards, > >Gary > >
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