At 02:14 AM 10/31/02, Nick Simicich wrote: >I seriously doubt that one in eight of the mails that come through the sort of >mailing lists that most of us run here are being blocked by spam blockers, unless one >in eight of ordinary mails are blocked.
Many of our newsletters are blocked by SpamAssassin. For example, a french soccer newsletter was bounced today because SpamAssassin determined that it contained porn. You can see the newsletter here- http://server.com/WebApps/mail-list-archive.cgi?id=12603;date=2002-10-30 . I don't think that SpamAssassin is sophisticated enough to determine the content of a message written in a foreign language. People love and praise SpamAssassin, but I think it just arbitrarily blocks all bulk mail. For the record, I use the BrightMail service provided by Earthlink and it's been doing a great job for me. It blocks most of my spam but doesn't block any of my newsletters. Sean Brunnock http://server.com
