From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T20:30:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Spam at ruby-talk

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:48:05AM +0900, Michael Campbell 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.
> >
> > I'll upgrade SA the next time I'm on that box, but I wouldn't get your
> > hopes up :)
> 
> 
> Out of the hundreds of mails daily through ruby-talk, I get *maybe*
> single-digit spams daily through it [that aren't caught through my own spam
> filtering].

I don't do any spam filtering, but I read ruby-talk through a separate
mailbox set up for that purpose, and it receives maybe 0-3 spams a day,
which as a tiny proportion of the total list traffic is easy to deal with.
It would be more annoying, from my point of view, to start getting false
positives on valid postings.

Regards,

Brian.