On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:55:41PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Hi, all -- > > I know that there are a lot of folks using various spam-fighting > tools here, and particularly some who are using Spam Assassin, and so I > thought this might be of interest. I haven't checked into SA or how it's > configured or looked [recently] at the SpamTricks article, but I'd like > to know how much of this guy's claim is bupkus and how much is valid. > Maybe I'll get to dig into it. > > Surf on over to > > http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html > > and give it a read.
SpamAssassin works fine for me. I'm using the default configuration and almost all spam gets tagged. It never tagged real email incorrectly. However, I agree with the author: ISP's should never delete mail without the explicit permission of the customer. Marking suspected spam is ok, but not deleting. His attack against SpamAssassin was just to show that filters aren't 100% reliable, and it's true that spamassassin is geared to "technical types" (it has negative scores for Bugzilla reports, blocks of hexadecimal code, and patches...) As a side note, I subscribed to his mailing list, to see what SpamAssassin would do with it. I just received a "You're subscribed" message. No confirmation message, no unsubscribe information. No unsubscribe information on the website either. /me thinks I'll receive an offer to make money fast soon... Mvg, Peter De Wachter
