RE: [Wikitech-l] Spam Assassin - Wikitech-l

31 Jan 2004

I haven't set up Spam Assassin, but I do run a lot of mailing lists. You 
can eliminate 99% of all spam on mailing lists by doing two things:

1) Only members of the list can post to the list (I don't think you're 
doing this, but not sure since I'm not on the other list being discussed)

2) You must answer an email to join the list (I think you already do this)

There are other things that can be done to get rid of the last 1%, but this 
gets it down to very controlled levels for most mailing lists. If the list 
admin wants to take this off line, I'd be happy to discuss it, and work 
with him until the problem is resolved.

-Kelly

At 11:09 AM 1/30/2004, you wrote:

...
 Brion Vibber idly wondered,

   Can we
install Spam Assassin software on the wikien-l mailing list?
 How about other mailing lists? 
 Do you know how to set it up properly as a machine-wide service? 
Are you kidding? All I know is VB and Java on Windows. The only service
I know anything about takes place on Sundays at my church...

But I know what e-mail filtering is: certain combinations of keywords
tip off the software to flag a message as spam, and automatically moves
it to another bin. You can either leave the suspected spam in the bin,
or double-check it, or just have it automatically deleted.

Ed Poor
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