[Gllug] spam

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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, elvis i. pannkakan stated:
> I haven't tried it myself but I heard spam assassin might be good.
> http://spamassassin.taint.org/

I use it and think it rocks: in addition to its GA-scored local tests,
it's good for tying together multiple other antispam mechanisms in an
additive fashion (for me, it's consulting, in addition to its local
tests, Razor, DCC, and a variety of blacklists; none alone is enough to
rank a message as spam).

(Plus, it can guess how spammy a message is likely to be based upon the
spamminess of previous messages you've received from that user. Alas,
the spammers are catching on to this and are sending spam from yourself,
which is likely to lead tha autowhitelist to apply a huge negative
correction because most messages from you to you are nonspam. This is
being fixed in the CVS version by arranging to tie (from-address *
received-header-ip) to a decaying score, instead of just the
from-address.

But this is a complete digression and is probably boring as shit to
anyone not interested in spamassassin internals ;} )

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