[ECOS] Spam on list

Iztok Zupet iztok.zupet@vsr.si
Thu Sep 26 10:00:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 02:26, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > 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.

Mine is essentially a maildrop filter also maintained by hand. But the
spammers that harvest this region are different that the ones on the
mailing list, so it doesn't seem useful to combine the filters.

iz 



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