[aclug-L] Re: WeatherLab virus

[Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Dale W Hodge wrote:

> I'll second the vote for SpamAssassin. It can take a bit of tweaking
> to get the exclusion rules right, but overall it cuts down with the
> unwanted spam I have to deal with daily.

We run about a quarter of a million emails a day through SpamAssassin and
it does a rather amazing job.  I've been very impressed with it.  We've
added a lot of stuff on top of it but the core is very efficient and works
remarkably well.

> > I have a few people paying me to do spam filtering for them.  (I grab theri
> > mail via POP3, filter it, then they fetch it from me via POP3)  If you're
> > interested in such a service, I could do it for you, too.  But you are a
> > geek (at least geeky enough to be on this list), so there's no reason you
> > shouldn't be able to do it yourself :)
>
> That's a cool idea I hadn't thought of! And you are right, it's a
> simple thing to implement under Linux.

Well the idea of POPing mail and then remailing it make me shudder.  I
know a lot of people do it but give me SMTP any day over POP for moving
mail around.  I'd recommend scanning messages before they ever get put in
a mailbox.

Chris

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