[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > David Hansen : > >> Use a SPAM filter like everyone else is doing. Otherwise >> ppl can't reply to your postings via Mail. > > where can i get a good spam filter for gnus?
Current versions of Gnus include spam.el, which is a generic framework for supporting all sorts of external spam filtering systems. I use it with spam-stat.el which is a strictly Emacs-based Bayesian filter which actually seems to do a very good job for me. The definitive source of information is almost certainly the (gnus)Spam Package info page, which appears to be fairly detailed and includes a sample config, a listing of supported spam back ends, and a description of spam-stat.el. (My one complaint with spam-stat.el is that it's pretty slow; if a typical morning Gnus startup has 700 spam and 100 ham messages, then running all that elisp on every message does slow things down quite a bit. But if I'm willing to go do something else while Gnus starts up then it fills the "doesn't require support outside Emacs" niche pretty well.) I don't know what filtering your ISP does; MIT has gone through a couple of systems that put spam-related statistics in headers, so you could also just filter your mail away based on that. Finally, I wouldn't be terribly concerned about Them getting your email from Usenet as opposed to Them mailbombing your ISP/private domain and noticing that there's some address that doesn't bounce. IMHO it's much friendlier to the other (human!) newsgroup users to put a real address on your posts if you're going to get spammed either way. --dzm _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
