On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Janne Peltonen wrote:
5/week? Whee. We might achieve something remotely approaching that with
personalized bayesian filtering (a multi-discipline, internationaly
connected university receives quite a lot of ham that looks very much
like spam, so we are a bit paranoid
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:58:04PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
Now I'd like to ask the people on this list about their experiences
using the sieve vacation module. The risks of automatically
responding to spam / automatically forwarding spam / ending up in
sorceror's apprentice mode /
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:54:38AM -0400, Jorey Bump wrote:
In my opinion, no amount of backscatter is acceptable, so I don't allow
user-configurable autoresponders or forwarding. My antispam measures
have reduced the amount that makes it to the user's inbox to about
5/week, so I will make
Janne Peltonen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:58:04PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
Now I'd like to ask the people on this list about their experiences
using the sieve vacation module. The risks of automatically
responding to spam / automatically forwarding spam / ending up in
sorceror's
Hi!
The policy in our university has long been to discourage using auto
responders (two of the main reasons being, we don't want to end up
forwarding spam to innocent third parties, and neither want to
automatically confirm to a spammer that an address works - auto-answers
to lists and other
inboxes, it might be wise to continue the ban on autoreponders.
If you don't get much spam, sieve vacation is suitable. Providing a
usable frontend for ordinary users is the real challenge.
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, sieve vacation is suitable.
But how much is much, in your opinion? Say, 4 spam messages per day per user,
with 50 000 users? Would that be much? If, during summer, 25% of our
users were to have vacation active at any given time, that'd result in
50 000 vacation spams per day...
Providing a usable
Janne Peltonen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 07:47:28AM -0400, Jorey Bump wrote:
If you don't get much spam, sieve vacation is suitable.
But how much is much, in your opinion? Say, 4 spam messages per day per user,
with 50 000 users? Would that be much? If, during summer, 25% of our
Janne Peltonen wrote:
Now I'd like to ask the people on this list about their experiences
using the sieve vacation module. The risks of automatically
responding to spam / automatically forwarding spam / ending up in
sorceror's apprentice mode / ending up having our mail servers
blacklisted
