Re: Spam filters on the mailing lists

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Spam filters on the mailing lists
Date: 2008-02-23 02:20:06
Message-ID: FFBCEC675A7C66AAF831A06C@ganymede.hub.org
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I suspect what happened is we were having some delays on the lists, and I
removed greylisting to make sure it wasn't a choke point, and failed to
re-enable it after getting things back to normal ...

That is re-enabled now ...

- --On Friday, February 22, 2008 07:51:43 -0800 "Joshua D. Drake"
<jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm wondering whether something simple and rule-based might
>>>> help catch a lot of this before we start Bayes work on them.
>>>> I mean, "Casino slots" in the title is a pretty easy catch :)
>>> +1. SpamAssassin on a very conservative setting would catch
>>> well over 90% of the crap I have to reject-quiet in -general.
>>
>> Graylisting would reject a lot of the crap without any extra effort,
>> *before* it hits the spam filter.
>
> It is my understanding that the mailing lists do greylist.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
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