Re: Spammish?

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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