From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-04-16T05:57:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] spam filter Was: Re: Urgent Assistance


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Brian Candler wrote:
> No, it certainly is filtered. Look at the headers of the spams which 
> get
> through: for example the most recent one had
>
> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 
> tests=INVALID_DATE_NO_TZ,DEAR_SOMEBODY,SUPERLONG_LINE,RCVD_IN_ORBZ 
> version=2.20
> X-Spam-Level: ***
>

The mail-news gateway is filtered: I run SpamAssassin on messages going 
to both directions. However, the mailing list itself is open, so anyone 
can post to ruby-talk directly.

In addition, spammers seem to be getting wise to SpamAssassin: I'm 
seeing more and more e-mail get through (both personally and in the 
mail-news gateway). I was on the point of reducing the threshold a bit 
to see if it made things better. Does anyone have any experience to 
share here?

Cheers

Dave