Keith,
the reason the secretariat is doing this in stages is exactly because we
want to see how big the false-positive issue is.
I currently personally use Mailman 2.60 with Bayesian filtering and
close-to-default rules; it seems to run at a very low rate of false
positives.
--On 18. desember 2003 09:40 -0500 Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> wrote:
the reason you don't see a lot of spam on IETF lists is because it's
sent to the list administrators, and they filter it by hand.
The chief beneficiaries of automatic spam detection and deletion in
the current IETF setup is the list administrators.
I'm one of those list administrators and I can attest that having spam
flood the review queues of the mailing lists is a huge problem. It's not
terribly unusual for the review queue of some lists to get so large that
you can't download and resubmit Mailman's review page without crashing
the web browser (and I've tried several different browsers on different
platforms).
but despite first-hand experience with the problem I'm still worried
about using SpamAssassin - I've seen it block too many legitimate
messages.