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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:02:53 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Party
Message-ID:  <20060920190253.GA83605@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060920185542.GE1075@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <20060920104047.GA49442@splork.wirewater.yow> <20060920185542.GE1075@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:55:43PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2006.09.20 10:40:47 +0000, Jacula Modyun wrote:
> > Today do the spammers and viruses give a party in th FreeBsd mailing lists?
> > Here it is raining cats and dogs from spammers.
> 
> Yes, unfortunately the spam filter program decided to kill itself and
> had to be manually restarted, so only the basic first level filter,
> which is run on the incoming mail server, was active for a while.
> 
> BTW. thanks for sending your mail to the proper list for such things
> so we don't add more noise to the normal lists talking about the spam
> compared to the actual spam mails.

BTW, those of you who were bothered by the increase in spam should
look at setting up bogofilter; it handled the extra spam load
transparently and none of them got through to my mail folders (in fact
I wouldn't have noticed the problem at all if there hadn't been a
series of messages from less spam-resistant users complaining about it
:-).

Kris

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