On Saturday, Sep 20th 2003 at 15:12 -0000, quoth Jim: =>On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:05:42AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: =>> At the risk of being snapped at, I use apamass-milter to block at a certain =>> spam threshhold. So, doesn't it get that score weight from SA.....??? I'm =>> blocking a huge amount of spams with spamass-milter this way. That stops =>> them just a little sooner I would think.... => =>That's great, if that's what you want to do. And if that's what you want =>to do, that's fine. => =>What I am saying is that the list is polluted with newbies asking how to =>BLOCK mails with SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin does not BLOCK mails. There =>is a great distinction between "blocking with SA" and "blocking with a =>tool that relies on SA tags" (e.g., "blocking a huge amount of spams with =>spamass-milter" as you mentioned). => =>That distinction was not made in the OP's message. => =>K? This is the troll speaking.
SA does not block mail. It tags mail. Then you can do whatever you want with that tagging. In procmail (if you really want to use that) you can either sort it to a more comfortable place or else you can send it to /dev/null. By using spamass-milter you have the option of rejecting the message before reception completes. This way, the spammer knows that you have rejected his message and that you have not received it. My next step, after I get everything tuned the way I want, is to set a 30 second delay on the reject, thus tying up his resources. Then the final step is to change the 500 series reject code to a 400 series code so he ends up retrying with all those delays. Remember what Arlo Guthrie said: "If one guy does it, they'll think he's nuts. If two guys do it, they'll think they're a couple of fags. But if three people go into the draft office and sing a chorus of Alice's Restaurant, with feeling, they'll think there's a whole *movement* out there...". -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
