[Gllug] spamassassin

[Nix]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Stig Brautaset uttered the following:
> On Sep 30 2002, Nix was overheard saying:
>> On 30 Sep 2002, Rich Walker muttered drunkenly:
>                                        ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I know you said at one stage that these are randomly chosen, but this
> one should probably have a strong bias towards replies to mail which
> were sent late Friday/Saturday night ;)

An interesting suggestion, and easy to implement; altho' algorithmically
determining the timing of Lonix events may be a tad harder...

>:0 fw
>| spamassassin -P 

(not spamc?)

> # If SpamAssassin triggers, make sure we plonk followups too

I actually like the spam followups, but maybe that's because I read some
groups/lists where said followups are actually amusing.

(Well, sort of amusing. In a good light. ;) )

>:0 
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> {
>         :0 fW
> 	| formail -x"Message-Id:" >> $spam_ids
> 
> 	:0 :
> 	* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> 	$spam

I also couldn't put it in my spambox, because that box is a manually
filtered box of known spam only; nothing else is allowed in.

(How else to test and train SA? ;) )

> Plonking the rest of the thread only works if people use decent mailers
> that includes References/In-Reply-To field though. However, it could

i.e., it preferentially fails to plonk spam from the particularly
clueless.

I see a problem. ;)

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