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Re: [procmail/RT] How can I filter out <!-- spam?

2003-06-29 12:54:13
At 19:51 2003-06-29 +0200, Ruud H.G. van Tol did say:
Alan Clifford skribis:
> It is difficult to use spam recipes that don't
> trap emails discussing spam recipes.

Just don't use recipes based on content.

Or, instead skip certain recipes for lists such as procmail. If you use a cumulative score approach, where several factors add up to equate to a spam, it is possible to still filter a list for spam, but exclude certain factors - or to say that a very large number of HTML comment constructs is more spammy than four or five, and that a list such as procmail has an "allowance" for spammish stuff.

That's what I do. Procmail list relayed messages start with a negative spammish score, so there needs to be more spam factors than would otherwise be required. The truly spammy things still get filtered, but most mere discussions of technique don't get clobbered. Of course, if some moron wants to post gobs of his spam (as if the users here are subscribed so that they can get copies of other peoples' spam), then the message is likely to be categorized for what it is.

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 Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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