Re: Spammish?
2003-02-15 23:11:04
On Saturday, Feb 15, 2003, at 18:15 Canada/Mountain, fleet(_at_)teachout(_dot_)org
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 the voices made fleet(_at_)teachout(_dot_)org write:
I object to the use of blacklists I don't personally control. (I
understand Spamassassin also uses rules, etc.; but the use of
blacklists
turns me off. I've been told the blacklists can be turned off; but
the we
have procmail running inside of procmail (sorta)) :)
Go have a look at the software before you start talking about it as
if you
know it, SA is much more advanced than anything you could ever write
in pure
procmail.
I thought I had written this specifically to show that I had no
first-hand
knowledge of the software - terms like "I understand" and "I've been
told." So, to make it perfectly clear - no, I've never seen the
product
in use. The website claims that the product uses blacklists *AND*
that it
uses heuristics and rules.
Spam Assassin, in fact, doesn't use blacklists. At least not by
default. It does check various RBL blacklists, and those can affect
the total score, but SA doesn't say "Ooops, this sender is in SPEWS,
therefore this message is bounced."
In fact, by default SA delivers ALL mail. It merely marks mail it
thinks might be spam with appropriate headers and information so that
the end user can make a decision about the message.
Now, I quarantine anything with a SA score over 3.0 for most mail (this
list, for example, gets run through SA but everything, regardless of
score, gets delivered to the mailbox, same with the SpamAssasin mailing
list and a few others) and delete anything with a score over 6.0
outright (previous exceptions apply).
On my business email I mark anything over 5.0 and delete nothing until
I look at it. The nice thing about SA is that looking at the SPAM mbox
is very fast. I just need to scan to see if anything looks like the
email address might be real. Normally I just delete the mail outright.
--
How you have felt, o men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my
accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost
made me forget who I was, such was the effect of the,; and yet they
have hardly spoken a word of truth.
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