[PD] spam on the pd-announce list

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Aug 11 06:08:19 CEST 2003


Actually, if pd-announce was change to only allow posts from members of 
the list, there would be no more spam.  That's how the other lists are 
configured and hence no spam.  Well, except the spam that is posted by 
members ;)

.hc

On Sunday, Aug 10, 2003, at 20:12 America/New_York, Josh Steiner wrote:

> we are drifting pretty OT here, but i'll throw in my $0.02.  i used to 
> use spamassasin, but i switched to mozilla mail's built in spam 
> filtering.  it uses bayenesian techniques which i find much more 
> easily trainable.  that mozilla reacts well to the new sneakier ways 
> that spammers are using to get around a lot of spam filters.
>
> -josh
>
> Nick Morrison wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:03:13AM +0200, delire said:
>>
>>> yes albeit nearly impossible to filter against.
>>>
>>> de/
>>>
>>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:42:53 -0400
>>> David NG McCallum <david2003 at mentalfloss.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> //
>>> //         This is really getting out of hand.
>>> //
>>> //>A HACKER MAY BE IN YOUR SYSTEM!
>>>
>>
>> Spamassassin has some very clever filtering techniques - I use it, and
>> haven't seen a single spam from pd-list.  My "SPAM" mail folder, 
>> however,
>> is getting full.  Highly recommended "-)  Spam for me is almost a 
>> thing of
>> the past (although, the bastards are getting cleverer with their spam
>> construction, carefully avoiding commonly-used spam matching 
>> heuristics)
>>
>>
>> Ncik
>>
>>
>
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