On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:13:42PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> TongMaster wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 06:53 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >
> >>Can SLUG be made subscriber only, or have some spam filters installed.
> >>The S/N ratio is getting below unity.
I just did a quick check.. my filter pulled out 6 SLUG spams in 10 days,
plus a handful of 'unsure' that slipped through because I don't train my
filter with anything from SLUG. It's a problem , but not a huge one, and
in line with previous discussion it seems like a small price to pay for an
open list.
I seem to get lots more SPAM on slug-chat..
> >
> >
> > I get no SPAM on this list. I'm not suggesting that none is sent to this
> > list but that perhaps you improve your SPAM filters?
>
> How?
> The trouble with spam filters is that they have to be trained, which
> means you need to receive spam (the point of contention) and mark it as
> such for the spam filter to recognise it as spam and hopefully it
> recognises the next day's spam as spam.
>
> And if you are using Thunderbird, it seems to drop most of it's load
> every so often and needs to be re-educated (thwack, thwack, thwack).
>
> <tic>
>
> I'm begining to think I'd prefer a white-list/black list option than
> some "mysterious" process that patently can not recognise obvious spam >
>
> Of course, prepending everything with something that rejects all mail
> with incorrectly spelt words would certainly cut spam incredibly {:-)
>
> </tic>
>
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