Pfff... You're kidding right? We had non-list-members able to post? Oh dear lord... ROFLMAO.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 07:22 Subject: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: OT: Adjusting the spam-bar (scores) > > Hi, > I will try the new configuration for a while, but it looks like > my "hey, lets put a limit at score 3.0" suggestion is made obsolete > by "oops, we forgot to enable only-list-members-can-post" found on > the same day. About my decision tree: Things which look like being > from freedos-* lists or being about FreeDOS itself are handled very > generously, only if they contain executable attachments or look like > "virus notification to alledged sender" nonsense, they are still > thrown away as spam. The new setup adds "... or have a high spam score". > For normal mails, the greylisting (force a second send attempt if the > mail server IP is unknown) now implemented in our mail servers has > reduced spam a lot, almost scary. My local spam filter now has only > ten spams per day or so left to process. Last but not least, we have > Antivir on the gateway mail server, but that has the stupid property > of sending (easy to throw away by a filter rule) notifications about > the alledged sender and subject to me, without mentioning the much more > useful sender IP. On the other hand, it correctly removes almost every > single incoming virus. My trash folder is a lot smaller that way :-). > I think there are now more viruses than spam coming to me, because the > spammers are slowed down by greylisting while viruses use more official > ways to send mail and are probably more "insisting on me". > > > Eric > > > I assume that you request suggestions on how to strengthen underpowered or > > unintelligent anti-spam approaches and are not so egocentric as to suppose > > that everyone else on list need think about restructuring their own message > > content just to make your life easier due to use of simplistic single-pass > > single-decision-point spam filtering. > ... > > PS: The most egocentric thing in my spam filter rules is "if I do not > know you as somebody who is forced to use HTML, and if you are not talking > about DOS, then your mail is considered spam if it is in HTML...". Might be > a bit overdoing things, but don't worry, I keep an eye on my spam folder. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
