On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:38:52 -0700 "Kerry Nice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I saw in the Lockergnome newsletter I received today, Spamassassin was > slammed big time. I do see his point though. Does SA really do that > great of a job with newsletters and journals? Lets just say that "BoogieJack" needs a clue. SPamAssassin in itself does not filter. The filtering, if any, is done by the MTA. He is blaming the wrong party. It's like blaming MAPS for lost mail if your ISP is using an rbl (not that there arent clueless people that does...). > Out of those, 213 hit over 5 and a lot of them scored in double digits. > Pretty much every one of the Lockergnome journals scored about 15. I > never see this since as a matter of habit procmail filters all my > mailing lists to another folder before SA sees any of them. Wich is exactly why you tag messages instead of remove them. All heuristic engines are bound to cause false positives and negatives. > Is this just the journals I read or does this seem like a really big > problem to others? I know these can be whitelisted (and in my case, > procmail takes care of them), but if an ISP, for example, is going to > use SA, lots of people are going to get legitmate mail filtered and will > have to go hunting for it in their caught mail folder. It's only a problem if the ISP does filtering instead of just tagging. If the filtering is done in the client MUA it is trivial to "whitelist" addresses. -- Lars Hansson Universal Joint Network Technologies, Inc 16/F Equitable Bank Tower, 8751 Paseo de Roxas, Makati City, Philippines PGP Key http://www.unet.net.ph/~lars/pubkey.asc _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
