I realize that I must deal with my campus server and my local server separately 
and that
everyone else must find their own solutions at the local level. My complaint 
here is that
sourceforge itself as the list server is marking these messages as spam. They 
should be
able to adjust their scoring to accommodate the characteristics of normal 
content for the
lists they serve - one list at a time.

David Sommers 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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