[Gllug] They worked brilliantly

[Adam Bower]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0000, Mark Lowes wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:16, Adam Bower wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:38:03PM +0000, Mark Lowes wrote: 
> > > Been round this loop (please read the archives), I think the last time
> > > this came up the view amongst those who responded was that the list
> > > should remain open.
> > 
> > one possible addition to this is to add +2 onto the spam-status for postings
> > from unsubscribed addresses, so that most list mail will come through as normal
> 
> Non-trivial.  This would mean I need to hook in a whitelist of addresses
> from mailman (on one machine) to the spamscanner (on another).  To be
> frank it's not going to happen.
> 

that sounds more than fair enough to me, I am also of the opinion that you take
the easy path. As of course the least overall effort on the list admins behalf 
is best =)

> > but the increased value in spam assassin should get pretty much everything.
> > Although on the other side you may still get the occaisional spam so it can
> > never be perfect.
> 
> We're not exactly getting much spam through at the moment, we could of
> course turn of the spam trapping which is happening at the mailman level
> so the list can see just how much is getting caught but I don't think
> anyone would particularly enjoy that experiment.

I think turning it off is a really bad idea, its not as though we get very much
spam at all, I would only advocate the increasing the +2 score if it really was
a no brainer and I dont want you to make that extra effort at all it just
seemed like a good idea at the time if all the data was availabe in the same 
place. Of course I also want less spam overall like most people...

Personally I don't spamassassin my mailing lists only my inbox and personal
mail, just because i like to watch the threads based around spam ;) my +2 idea
was based on a conceptual idea of things being the way I imagined them and
would be a relatively good way of dealing with it if it was simple.

Adam
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