On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:39:01 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Junk mail detection learns quick and is great, though it did have some > > issues with some cluggers. Mainly just Nick and Volker (Hmmm ;->). > > There there, I'm all offended! me too >(No it can't be because I'm just about > the only one who knows how to spell "trim your replies", because Nick > sure doesn't...) now doubly so! yeah i know i know - heres my excuse <drum roll> on some mail clients you can select a portion of the message and hit reply, and only the selected bit gets quoted in the reply. evolution doesn't appear to do this. but my windows client at work does so no excuse really. > > I can never make up my mind whether it's an advantage or disadvantage to > filter mailing lists through the spam filter. I don't, though with my > procmail setup it's trivial to run only some lists through it. > I tend to filter out the list stuff before applying spam filters on the basis that the listserver is probably dealing with (most of) the spam and viruses, i also found that quite a lot of list messages from various lists were triggering the filters. if you aren't careful you can reinforce that behaviour with the 'learning" system. spamassassin gets whats left over. > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
