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 asks about the origin of explicit spam, such as the anti-semetic stuff that was posting to the list from an obviously mangled header source, someone always brings up that the lists are not proctared, as if there is not any management at all, and such obvious garbage is just going to post due to lack of supervision, or spam protocals... Thanks for the reply. >Fri Apr 24 2009 22:22:27 EDT from Gary Palmer to Martes Wigglesworth >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 would >>> 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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