From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: mailing list posting policies?
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 17:30:20 +0100
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Hello.

DJ Delorie wrote:
[snip]
> The alternatives, though, are to just live with the spam that gets
> through my filters, or make non-subscribers' emails require approval
> (i.e. delay).
[snip]

What spam filters do you use? I've started using spamassassin and it does a
good job of killing spam. It's here:

    http://spamassassin.taint.org/

It uses a set of rules to produce a score indicating the likelyhood that a
message is spam. You can change the threshold for spam vs. non-spam. I changed
the rules to give anything in Korean script a high score and my spam seems to
have gone down drastically.

The mails are tagged with headers indicating the score, so you can process the
spam/non-spam however you like - just drop it / return to sender / report as
spam / whatever.

If you want to keep the DJGPP mailing list as open as possible, it might be
worth a try.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]