<quote who="Peter Hardy">
> We've been using Spam Assassin for the last six months or so. I believe
> the threshold for moderation is currently set to 4.2, and anything over
> 8 or 9 or something is automatically discarded. I think Jeff could give
> more details there.
We're holding on 4, discarding at 6. Harsh bastards, aren't we? ;-)
> Between SA and some absolutely evil regexes in mailman, we do end up
> throwing away most of the crud. According to the archive page, I've
> counted around 10 or so spam mails this month (it was a quick count, and
> mildly subjective. Don't flame me). An equally quick count of the
> slug-admin mail I've received shows us discarding something like 120 spam
> mails.
Sweet! The mailman rules you added, and the changes to Debian defaults I did
a few weeks back have definitely helped the non-en character set ones -
probably where we were falling down a bit.
> I'm not actually sure if SA on the slug box is adding headers, or if
> it's my mail server putting them there.
Your mailserver is; we're using the Mailman filter, so it just says "yes",
"hold" or "discard", without modifying the mail itself.
> Like I mentioned above, though, mails that exceed the SA threshold are
> automatically moved to the moderation queue. Really excessively spammy
> ones are automatically discarded. And I mean *really* excessively spammy.
> I don't think it's actually happened yet.
Yeah, it happens a lot, we just don't get told about it. ;-) The mailman
logs will tell you what happened to them:
maddog:~# zgrep discarded /var/log/mailman/vette* | wc -l
95
> The merits and evils of subscriber-only posting have been thrashed out
> both here and on slug-chat many times, and the opinion of the archives
> seems to be that the increased risk of spam is worth the convenience and
> accessibility of what most people still consider to be a great resource.
Hear, hear.
My local spamassassin does manage to catch all of the spam that gets
through, so there's definitely something odd going on on maddog. I'll ask
James (Henstridge, who wrote the mailman filter) about it, and see if we can
nut out the problem.
- Jeff
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