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

[dan blah]

On 10/16/06, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 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".
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currently sa is parsing all messages... we just need to spend some
time tweaking it a bit.  also, we also need to work out some issues
with the dnsbl i set up on postfix last week.  if we get that working
better it should cut down a lot of spam.

-- 
Daniel