Trouble is, I've seen lots of spam lately sent using legitimate mailing list software (i.e. Lyris). I definitely wouldn't use a score as low as -2 for any of these.
-- michael moncur mgm at starlingtech.com http://www.starlingtech.com/ "If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." -- Professor Irwin Corey > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > William R Ward > Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 3:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matthew Cline > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Email list rules > > > > Many popular mailing list programs add either "List-Id:" or > "Mailing-List:" to the messages. These would be good additions to > your rules. > > Another approach is to target individual list programs; for example, > the mailman server that the SAtalk list uses adds "X-Mailman-Version: > 2.0.5" to the mail. > > If you cover ezmlm, mailman, and yahoogroups, you'll catch the vast > majority of mailing lists these days. Majordomo and LISTSERV are > becoming more and more rare. > > But beware: if these rules are added to spamassassin, intelligent > spammers (oxymoron? you be the judge) might use the fact to help get > their spam under the "radar". So the effect for these rules should be > relatively small. > > --Bill. > > -- > William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
