[IMC-Tech] File 13 for Email, I Give Up

[Stuart Levy]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Joe Futrelle wrote:
> Mailman's issue with its crappy admin interface is longstanding and I  
> don't think we can wait for it to be fixed. That said, I'm as unclear  
> as Stuart about how to interpose an open-source spam filter between  
> incoming mail and whatever's running the distro lists--Mailman or its  
> eventual replacement. Rolling our own spam filter with heuristics  
> will only buy us time.

True, but I'd say buying time is good.  At least we'll have
a chance to evolve as the spam climate continues to heat up.

On the NCSA e-mail system, where the organization-wide filters detect
100-150 spam messages sent to me each day, my personal procmail filters
catch another 5-10 per day that the NCSA filters miss.  I'm regularly
adding things that legit messages just won't contain, like "st-0ck" or
"stockk" or "PH[a-z]*RMA".