Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:35 -0400 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:01 +0100 RW articulated: On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 RW articulated: On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: Yes,

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 16 May 2013 23:05:33 +0100 Bruce Cran articulated: There have been some discussions about this in the past. freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid people who may be unfamiliar with mailing lists being put off posting to it. Seriously? If some potential poster were so

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:18:18PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm a big fan of _not_ having to subscribe to a list to get a quick hand with a one off problem (obviously not this one!)- otherwise too many lists get subscribed to, oodles of messages come in which you can't do anything about and so

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On 17/05/2013 11:42, Jerry wrote: Seriously? If some potential poster were so brain dead that he/she could not comprehend how to subscribe to the mailing list then I would seriously doubt that they would possess the necessary skills to install and run FreeBSD to begin with. Lets be honest

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: On 17/05/2013 11:42, Jerry wrote: Seriously? If some potential poster were so brain dead that he/she could not comprehend how to subscribe to the mailing list then I would seriously doubt that they would possess the necessary skills

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 RW articulated: On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: On 17/05/2013 11:42, Jerry wrote: Seriously? If some potential poster were so brain dead that he/she could not comprehend how to subscribe to the mailing list then I would

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 RW articulated: On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post messages PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!, apparently

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:01 +0100 RW articulated: On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 RW articulated: On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 05/17/2013 05:45, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 It seems to me that the level of spam in list is pretty much negligible. That would be a subjective statement. It is like asking how many times you have to slap your wife before you are considered a wife beater.

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 10:53 -0700, Robison, Dave wrote: All this bike shedding and crosstalk has produced far more pointless email than all the spam I've gotten from this list in the last month. I don't know if those mails where pointless, but there were much mails and I only read two or three

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread freebsd
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:53:39AM -0700, Robison, Dave wrote: This has gotten to the point of the ridiculous now. Comparing a few spam to wife beating and serial killers? That's just patently offensive, quite frankly. All this bike shedding and crosstalk has produced far more pointless

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. There have been some discussions about this in the past. freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid people who may be unfamiliar with mailing lists being put off

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Bruce Cran wrote: On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. There have been some discussions about this in the past. freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid people who may be unfamiliar with

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 16 May 2013 23:05:33 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. There have been some discussions about this in the past. freebsd-questions doesn't require

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Kraus
On May 14, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: I'm a big fan of _not_ having to subscribe to a list to get a quick hand with a one off problem (obviously not this one!)- otherwise too many lists get subscribed to, oodles of messages come in which

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-14 Thread Da Rock
On 05/12/13 22:04, Rich Kulawiec wrote: 1. Restricting mailing lists to subscribers only has been a best practice since the last century. It's a very good anti-spam tactic. 2. However, doing so -- for a list run via Mailman, like this one -- does not pose a significant impediment for

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
domain. But I use the same From: address. I switched my email address on this list because Insight Cable, but I believe not Time Warner Cable, uses synacor.com for spam filtering, and messages are deleted when synacor.com's software flags it as spam, and there were false positives resulting

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 11 May 2013 19:44:46 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: - List could silently discard such spam.

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-12 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 12 May 2013 07:39:31 +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith articulated: On Sat, 11 May 2013 19:44:46 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-12 Thread Rich Kulawiec
1. Restricting mailing lists to subscribers only has been a best practice since the last century. It's a very good anti-spam tactic. 2. However, doing so -- for a list run via Mailman, like this one -- does not pose a significant impediment for non-subscribers. By default, Mailman will hold

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: - List could silently discard such spam. - Postmaster@ ( webmaster@ weeding web archives) would have less work. - Less individual need to select spam

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: - List could silently discard such spam. - Postmaster@ ( webmaster@ weeding web archives) would have less work. - Less

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Michael Ross
On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi questions@ ( spammer not cc'd ) Reference: From: Aaron Seligman aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com Reply-to: aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 18:59:07

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I'm curious how much spam you get through this list. Just counted, and I have about 2 Spams per week for the last month, that's more than usual. Personaly I'm on ~ 47 freebsd lists or so my MH dirs + procmail filter boxes suggest, so when someone spams multiple lists with the same spam it

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, From: Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 08:33:47 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: some lists are

List Spam Filtering

2013-05-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi questions@ ( spammer not cc'd ) Reference: From: Aaron Seligman aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com Reply-to: aselig...@altitudedigitalpartners.com Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 18:59:07 + (UTC) Subject: Re: Display Video Campaigns-Inventory Needed Message-id:

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-08 Thread Joshua Isom
Most of the spam I've seen get through is actually obvious from the subject line. I've seen more posts by people who weren't subscribed and asked to be cc'd than I've seen spam. Making the list subscribers only would only hinder the the lucky spammers, and stop more people genuinely asking

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: some lists are like this anyway. Why are not all like this? I notice that my postings get delayed and obviously check when I use by accident my real e-mail

Spam filtering with dspam and postfix

2008-01-25 Thread J. Johnston
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good howto, or some tips for filtering spam using dspam in a setup where virtual users (various domains) are stored in LDAP. Currently we hand off email to dspam in the filter stage and dspam hands it back into postfix as lmtp, the problem with this

Re: Spam filtering with dspam and postfix

2008-01-25 Thread Mark D. Foster
J. Johnston wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good howto, or some tips for filtering spam using dspam in a setup where virtual users (various domains) are stored in LDAP. Currently we hand off email to dspam in the filter stage and dspam hands it back into postfix as lmtp,

Spam Filtering

2007-10-02 Thread Jack Barnett
My setup is basically everything gets pumped though procmail and ends up in an Courier imap directories. I'm thinking of going with something like SpamBouncer (procmail filter). Anyone use that before? Any other spam filtering that might work better with this setup

Re: Spam Filtering

2007-10-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:54:22PM -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: My setup is basically everything gets pumped though procmail and ends up in an Courier imap directories. I'm thinking of going with something like SpamBouncer (procmail filter). Anyone use that before? Any other spam

Re: Spam Filtering

2007-10-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
My setup is basically everything gets pumped though procmail and ends up in an Courier imap directories. I am using SpamAssassin (from the ports) inside procmail that quarantine every suspect messages and send a daily summary: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/laboratory/email/quarantine.shtml Best

SPAM filtering Agent

2007-05-30 Thread DeadMan Xia ....
Hi everybody, hope every1 doing fine well i m using QMAIL for email services. I have also installed SPAM ASSASINS while installing Qmail. Now i m getting too much SPAM in every mailbox of my domain. Kindly help me out and tell me what shld i do. which spam filter is should use and how to

Re: SPAM filtering Agent

2007-05-30 Thread Gerard
On Wednesday May 30, 2007 at 07:34:35 (AM) DeadMan Xia wrote: hope every1 doing fine well i m using QMAIL for email services. I have also installed SPAM ASSASINS while installing Qmail. Now i m getting too much SPAM in every mailbox of my domain. Kindly help me out and tell me what