Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Actually, it wasn't that bad. Only four messages were of that type,
> while about 90 were the usual viagra/stopsmoking/makemoneynow variety.
> I'd love to see those dropped unceremoniously before even making
> it to the queue, as the great majority of them are not 'tricky' and
> should be picked up by any spam filtering software. I used to be in
> the camp of leaning towards lenience just so we don't accidentally
> throw out a legitimate message from a non-subscriber, but at this
> point, I don't think it is worth the extra hassle. More importantly,
> the sheer volume of things to moderate probably means that it is
> more likely that a moderation error will cause a real message to be
> dropped than a stricter spam filter.

Personally I'd prefer them to be rejected inband so the legitimate
sender learns about the problem and reformulate the message accordingly.

Spam filters should never just receive messages and then put them
in black hole.

Just my 1e-10EUR.

Tino