On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 22:29 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> Jonathon Coombes wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:42 -0500, Chad Smith wrote:
> >> On 11/26/05, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I DON'T use the address, but apparently addresses from this list have been
> >>> picked up and therefore most of us are getting SPAMMED with this junk!
> >>> 'Course, those of us who use Linux don't have to worry about it. ;)
> >>>
> >> Linux prevents SPAM?  I use Linux.  Tell me how that works.  What's the 
> >> bash
> >> command to prevent SPAM.
> > 
> > No, the spam filters that are freely available on Linux prevent spam.
> > There are a number of filters out there including spamassassin, cre214,
> > and others. Alternatively, or in combination, you can use good filtering
> > rules in your mail client such as Thunderbird or Evolution. It makes the
> > email virtually spam free!
> 
> Well, not exactly. Tell me how to set up a spamassassin filter to get 
> rid of emails in Cyrillic.

You can set a filter for non-english languages. This works fine for
me for a lot of spam.

> Tbird's junk filter doesn't eliminate spam; it identifies it as such 
> and perhaps moves it to a different folder.

Yes, but doing a select all and delete is much easier than trying to
filter through your inbox yourself.

Regards
Jonathon
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