Apple mail has a little check box on the preferences pane, labelled
something like "Trust spam headers from my ISP". I have it checked for
now, so that the Auto-White List (AWL) at SourceForge takes care of
letting Hardhats mail through, but for mail coming from elsewhere, Spam
Assassin will run locally to filter out spam (and does a good job, I
might add).

--- David Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Simply whitelist the domain (lists.sourceforge.net).  It'll be hard
> for
> SF to fix it themselves unless they threw something on the bottom of
> every message that WASN'T an advertisment.  You take pure Code (which
> isn't in a dictionary) + Newsletter Ad and it'll = SPAM.
> 
> Combined with the fact that everyone's using a different type of
> filter
> - whether its web based (Yahoo/Gmail/etc), POP/IMAP based
> (Spamassassin/etc), Exchange (IMF/Outlook/etc), or pure-client driven
> (Cloudmark/IHateSpam/etc).  There's no simple fix to cover all your
> bases.
> 
> I just whitelist anything I want regardless.  For Dialog Medical, we
> whitelist at the Exchange level our customer domains for the same
> reason
> (we don't want to miss a thing).  At the client level, users can
> control
> their own white/black lists as well and that's where I stick my
> newsletter subscriptions.
> 
> /David.
>  
> David Sommers, Architect  |  Dialog Medical
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Kevin
> Toppenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Spam filters and MUMPS (was:
> Installing
> on Windows XP: HOME DEVICE...)
> 
> I don't know how to fix it.  I had to pull THIS message back out of a
> spam folder on GMail.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On 9/7/05, Jim Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have been finding email from this list consistently getting
> caught
> in the spam filters,
> > especially when it contains MUMPS code. I imagine that many
> subscribers to this list could
> > be losing messages like the one I am replying to because some
> overly
> zealous spam filter
> > stuck in the trash. Following are message headers added by
> sourceforge
> to this message. My
> > campus email system also appended similar warnings but with a
> higher
> spam score because it
> > didn't have the -2.7 white-list credit.
> > 
> > Is it possible to get sourceforge to smarten up their scoring
> algorithm to not pick on
> > MUMPS in messages to this list.
> > 
> > X-Spam-Score: 5.159 (*****)
> BAYES_00,OBSCURED_EMAIL,UPPERCASE_25_50,WEIRD_QUOTING
> > X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net.
> >         See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.
> >         Report problems to
> http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001
> >         3.2 OBSCURED_EMAIL         BODY: Message seems to contain
> rot13ed address
> >         2.0 WEIRD_QUOTING          BODY: Weird repeated
> double-quotation marks
> >         0.2 UPPERCASE_25_50        message body is 25-50% uppercase
> >         -2.7 AWL                    AWL: From: address is in the
> auto
> white-list
> > 
> > James Lane wrote:
> > >Here's the script.
> > >
> > >I am still unable to >D ^ZU without the trouble screen.
> > >
> > >Thanks for your assistance.
> > >
> > >-James
> > >-------- Script ------
> > >%ZOSV ;SFISC/AC - $View commands for Open M for NT.  ;09/22/2004
> 11:56
> > > ;;8.0;KERNEL;**34,94,107,118,136,215,293,284**;Jul 10, 1995
> > ...
> > <snip>
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Jim Self
> > Systems Architect, Lead Developer
> > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
> > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)
> > 
> > 
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