Hello Inhabitant,

Monday, September 1, 2003, 12:33:13 AM, you wrote:

>> My ISP uses Spamassassin, and maintains the rules. It is about 99+%
>> effective if it is kept up to date. It does scoring, and places the
>> score in the email, which allows me to place 'probable spam', with
>> a marginal score, in a separate folder. This has been very helpful
>> in preventing the loss of good email.

IoZ> I have spam assassin on my server but I never noticed the option you
IoZ> mention. Which version is it you are using maybe its newer than mine?
IoZ> Sounds like a good idea to me. Or is it something you setup yourself?

This is done by my ISP, but they have set it up in a way that gives
users quite a bit of control.

I was initially considering disabling the ISP's Spamassasin and doing
my own. It is a bit of work to keep the rules current in the ongoing
spam wars. Instead, I started a few threads in the local ISP
newsgroups asking for much more control. They listened and did it, so
I use theirs.

In Spamassasin, you can put info either in the message text or in
headers. I find headers a bit easier to filter.

Re versions, I would plan on keeping very current. The spam wars move
fast, and you need to keep ahead of the latest spammer tricks. I used
to run Spam Bouncer, and found you needed to update quite often.

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