The spam that arrives on the curiosa list is most often sent to most all the debian lists -- or at least quite a few. So it's not just debian-curiosa. As others have already suggested, use spamassassin. It rarely fails me.
I am extremely curious to know about the 'slightly tweaked' scoring that folks are using. I use the defaults from the debian package and seem to do fine. I am thinking of installing it site wide. (~200 users) It seems the genetic algorithm approach they use to determine the default scores is very interesting and it would be hard to tune the rules beyond this for better scoring for a large userbase. Maybe I should run the algorithm on my own mail archives and compare it... Anyway are the rules tweaked to match more spam or tweaked to find fewer false positives? It does, however, seem that since this list is so low traffic, all that ever gets talked about on here is the spam problem. It's quite possibly the most generally offtopic list I've ever been on! Anyway, not to be completely offtopic, I leave you to read about how we are all living a lie: http://www.isham-research.com/unix.html ~John -----Original Message----- From: Jim Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 5:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: spam and debian-curiosa I think I've had it with debian-curiosa. I get more spam from this list then everywhere else by and order of magnitude. I'm off. It's been fun, but the sprukers are cluttering my eyes. I really, really, really suggest someone change the list to only accept mail from members, otherwise debian-curiosa will become the junk pile of the debian lists. -- "may" rather than "can" to express permission appears to have been a matter of polite fashion, rather than accurate usage. p. 151, Barbara Dykes, Grammar Made Easy: A Practical Guide (1992 Hale & Ironmonger) Mr Grumpy - More than you needed to know. http://www.cyber4.org/grumpy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
