[ECOS] Spam on list

[Jonathan Larmour]

Iztok Zupet wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:52, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
>>Would it be possible to get a spam filter installed on the mailling
>>lists? Does sources have such a thing for other lists they maintain?
> 
> 
> It's very hard to install a spam filter filtering spam coming from
> public mailers, like Hotmail. The spammers send their mails using
> different account on a public mailer every time. You can't just put the
> entire Hotmail into the badmailfrom file.
> 
> Better solution is to use a filter looking for well known web or other
> links in the message bodies. That works, but consumes more CPU time.

I believe there is one already, maintained by hand[1]. May I suggest in 
future, if you see a spam that you believe could be used with a filter 
(e.g. a Nigerian scam one or whatever), to e-mail 
sourcemaster@sources.redhat.com where (hopefully!) someone might be able 
to act.

I might be wrong, but here goes anyway :).

Jifl
[1] The likes of SpamAssasin are very good, but can still be overkill.
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