From: Seth Kurtzberg <seth@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T04:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Spam at ruby-talk

I've recently switched from spamassassin to spambayes with much improved results.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 03:49:55 +0900
Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:37:54AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > My guess would be that the other lists are not open to anyone; in my 
> > experience SpamAssassin isn't going to be perfect, and some spam will 
> > inevitably get through.
> 
> AFAIK they are not any less open than ruby-talk.  In particular at the 
> OpenOffice mailing list we frequently (read "daily") get emails from 
> people who are not subscribed and don't even know how a mailing list is 
> different from a help hotline.
> 
> > I'll upgrade SA the next time I'm on that box, but I wouldn't get your 
> > hopes up :)
> 
> Thanks.  We'll see what happens.  The thing about SA versions is only a 
> guess of course.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
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