On Wednesday 09 November 2005 17:12, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What is your spam filter if I may be prudent enough to ask?
>
> I don't see how it is prudent, I think it is rather impudent.
>
> FWIW, mine, in addition to what the ISP, the aliasing services, and
> the server where my main accounts are hosted provide, is a proprietary
> set of rather complicated rules coded in lisp, plus a set of simpler
> procmail rules, plus the gnus' extensive scoring facility. Is that of
> any help? By the way, apparently they ate your original post quite
> successfully.
I see. %-)
Have you considered switching to SpamAssassin, SpamBayes, bogofilter or
whatever? I'm using SpamAssassin, with some custom tweaks of the scores, etc.
and I'm very happy with it.
>
> > Why don't you whitelist mail from mailing list which you know that
> > are subscribers-only?
>
> Why should anyone treat every subscriber to a mailing list the same?
> Some are irritating flamers, some tend to post off-topic nonsense,
> some provide a wealth of interesting information - all on the same
> mailing list.
Yes, but all such legitimate E-mails sent to the mailing list are ham
according to the distinguishing factor between spam and ham. There's no
reason to try and filter their messages according to the spam filters. By all
means all such messages are not unsolicited bulk E-mail.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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