Heh. Amanda gets whacked by the Nigerian spam too. At SSC we've been struggling with this sort of thing, and while we have not succeeded entirely in eliminating spam from our mailing lists, we're pretty close.
Of course most of our lists are members-only post, which so far screens out a lot of stuff. However as spamware becomes more clever, learning for example how to double-opt-in to common mailing list managers before spamming the lists, members-only becomes a less effective refuge. One day soon mailing lists will all need to start using probationary periods or start moderating all postings. A SpamAssassin front-end on a list helps. Run in front of the mailing list via procmail, this filter, working in concert with Vipul's Razor, eliminates most spamd before they get even on to our one or two open-posting lists. One of our open-posting lists would otherwise have spread (lessee, lemme countem ... ) about fifty spams on just one day last week. On that particular day, SpamAssassin intercepted them all. http://spamassassin.org/ http://razor.sourceforge.net/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URL http://www.linuxjournal.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------
