>This seems like a fairly important problem, and one which >could possibly make intelligent use of donated cpu cycles >in a distributed fashion.
Well, it's not quite that bad. I can't computationally afford to put SpamAssassin on the existing primary server. However, it should still be possible to route all inbound mail through a (single) dedicated spam filtering mail transfer agent. Mail-Archive uses an ISP with a lot of connections, including a tie to a company that makes commercial spam filter appliances. So there might be an opportunity without getting too extreme. However, looking at my personal inbox, which I agressively run through SpamAssassin, it looks like there is a ton of spam out there that is specifically written to evade filters. So I am not sure filtering is a good long term solution, even if it was easy to add. By the way, I just took all the "tiny" archives offline since they are likely to be also spam. We'll see how much grief/questions this generates from new legitimate lists who just archived their first test message! Here's some statistics: Total: ~9000 lists Tiny: ~3000 lists Active in last 150 days: ~3800 lists (A) Active in last 21 days: ~2040 lists Active in last 21 days and not tiny: ~1760 lists (B) So that means that I just pummelled the list of lists down to about 45% of its original size, going from (A) to (B). Clicking around a bit, I noticed a large remainder of the spam lists appear to have a particular domain name, so I pruned those, too. Comments and ideas appreciated. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
