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Date:      21 Nov 2002 08:47:40 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
Message-ID:  <877kf7kmib.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021121140056.GA30746@kierun.org>
References:  <20021121031809.GA77831@tao.thought.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10211210844210.23313-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <20021121135803.GB11980@gothmog.gr> <20021121140056.GA30746@kierun.org>

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At 2002-11-21T14:00:56Z, Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org> writes:

> Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something
> like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? 

Erm, I'm roughly 99.999% against that idea.  What if someone's writing to
ask how to secure their FreeBSD box that's currently being used as a spam
relay (and is on many blackhole lists)?

For what it's worth, I run SpamAssassin locally, and use it to *mark*
possible spams, but never drop them.  Then I configured my client to filter
based on the `X-Spam-Status' header into a spam folder that I periodically
check.  Once a month or so, I find a piece of mail that *should* have passed
but was marked, so I have to adjust my rules and/or whitelist accordingly.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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