Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)
Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I should've taken this off of the list already, but ah well...) i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point between paragraphs. admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive quoting, but this just feels awkward. i'll try it out for a few days. maybe it'll grow on me. Well, it's also ackward to reply to posts (or news articles), where the reply is on top of the quoted text. Makes it harder to read; you don't read books upside down either, do you? :-) Anyway, I guess it's not that big deal, but at least I consider it as a Bad Thing. As you say, top-posting usually leads to very excessive quoting and either way, IMHO it's much harder to read a mail upside down. thanks for the required_hits tip. next time i try SA, i'll read through the docs more thoroughly. No problem. -- Jussi Ekholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU/Linux user number 269376 http://erppimaa.cjb.net/~ekhowl/ | ICQ UIN: 156057281 ekh on IRCnet | GnuPG Public Key ID: 1410081E msg06689/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)
Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I should've taken this off of the list already, but ah well...) i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point between paragraphs. admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive quoting, but this just feels awkward. i'll try it out for a few days. maybe it'll grow on me. Well, it's also ackward to reply to posts (or news articles), where the reply is on top of the quoted text. Makes it harder to read; you don't read books upside down either, do you? :-) Anyway, I guess it's not that big deal, but at least I consider it as a Bad Thing. As you say, top-posting usually leads to very excessive quoting and either way, IMHO it's much harder to read a mail upside down. thanks for the required_hits tip. next time i try SA, i'll read through the docs more thoroughly. No problem. -- Jussi Ekholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU/Linux user number 269376 http://erppimaa.cjb.net/~ekhowl/ | ICQ UIN: 156057281 ekh on IRCnet | GnuPG Public Key ID: 1410081E pgp0owDQsCiCI.pgp Description: PGP signature
off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occasionally it would drive the cpu load into the 20s. Yes, I can say this, as well. My computer swapped twice (so much, that I had to hit MSysRq and boot) because of SA started to investigate pretty big binary mails. Although, fixing the problem is pretty easy; just add 'required_hits = x' in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, where 'x' is maybe 5 or something else. This makes SA to stop processing mails further than hits you just specified. i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point between paragraphs. admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive quoting, but this just feels awkward. i'll try it out for a few days. maybe it'll grow on me. thanks for the required_hits tip. next time i try SA, i'll read through the docs more thoroughly. xn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spamassassin (was Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam))
On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:53:29 -0700, Christian G Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was runoured to have said: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occasionally it would drive the cpu load into the 20s. Yes, I can say this, as well. My computer swapped twice (so much, that I had to hit MSysRq and boot) because of SA started to investigate pretty big binary mails. Although, fixing the problem is pretty easy; just add 'required_hits = x' in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, where 'x' is maybe 5 or something else. This makes SA to stop processing mails further than hits you just specified. i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point between paragraphs. admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive quoting, but this just feels awkward. i'll try it out for a few days. maybe it'll grow on me. thanks for the required_hits tip. next time i try SA, i'll read through the docs more thoroughly. You can also run SA in a client-server mode. Basically your procmail recipe uses spamc to connect to a spamd daemon that does the checking. There's a discussion in the SA docs on why this more efficient; it solved the high system load problem for me... xn Rgds, /-sb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occasionally it would drive the cpu load into the 20s. Yes, I can say this, as well. My computer swapped twice (so much, that I had to hit MSysRq and boot) because of SA started to investigate pretty big binary mails. Although, fixing the problem is pretty easy; just add 'required_hits = x' in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, where 'x' is maybe 5 or something else. This makes SA to stop processing mails further than hits you just specified. i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point between paragraphs. admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive quoting, but this just feels awkward. i'll try it out for a few days. maybe it'll grow on me. thanks for the required_hits tip. next time i try SA, i'll read through the docs more thoroughly. xn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spamassassin (was Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam))
On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:53:29 -0700, Christian G Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was runoured to have said: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occasionally it would drive the cpu load into the 20s. Yes, I can say this, as well. My computer swapped twice (so much, that I had to hit MSysRq and boot) because of SA started to investigate pretty big binary mails. Although, fixing the problem is pretty easy; just add 'required_hits = x' in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, where 'x' is maybe 5 or something else. This makes SA to stop processing mails further than hits you just specified. i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point between paragraphs. admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive quoting, but this just feels awkward. i'll try it out for a few days. maybe it'll grow on me. thanks for the required_hits tip. next time i try SA, i'll read through the docs more thoroughly. You can also run SA in a client-server mode. Basically your procmail recipe uses spamc to connect to a spamd daemon that does the checking. There's a discussion in the SA docs on why this more efficient; it solved the high system load problem for me... xn Rgds, /-sb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tofu (was: Spamassassin (was Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)))
Moin, * Stelios Bounanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-10 22:29]: On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:53:29 -0700, Christian G Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was runoured to have said: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occasionally it would drive the cpu load into the 20s. Yes, I can say this, as well. My computer swapped twice (so much, that I had to hit MSysRq and boot) because of SA started to investigate pretty big binary mails. Although, fixing the problem is pretty easy; just add 'required_hits = x' in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, where 'x' is maybe 5 or something else. This makes SA to stop processing mails further than hits you just specified. i tend to prefer top-posting except when responding point by point between paragraphs. admittedly, it's lazy and encourages excessive quoting, but this just feels awkward. i'll try it out for a few days. maybe it'll grow on me. thanks for the required_hits tip. next time i try SA, i'll read through the docs more thoroughly. You can also run SA in a client-server mode. Basically your procmail recipe uses spamc to connect to a spamd daemon that does the checking. There's a discussion in the SA docs on why this more efficient; it solved the high system load problem for me... I agree. I even made up a small page so that I just can refer to it instead of explaining the problem every time. Thorsten -- Guns don't protect freedom, people protect freedom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
