Has anyone tried this or something similar?

[John Seth]

I use SpamAssassin on my personal system, as well as at the ISP I work
for.  We use it in conjuction w/ procmail for giving each customer
customizable whitelists, blacklists, and sensitivity settings.  If you
have perl installed on a linux box, you can install using CPAN as root
(perl -MCPAN -e shell, or 'cpan' if you've ran it before), at the cpan>
prompt, type 'install Mail::SpamAssassin'.  The documentation included
is pretty decent, or check out their website:
http://www.spamassassin.org/

I haven't heard of the spam email filter you received an email about.  I
agree with everyone else, in that as far as being 100%, nothing can be
100%.  The saying "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"
comes to mind.

   Just my two cents,

  - Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: "peter" <pvant67 at wnyip.net>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Has anyone tried this or something similar?


: Justin Bennett wrote:
: > I've played with things like Spam assasin which does the same thing
on the
: > server side. These things are only as good as their rules. They look
for
: > certain things to judge if it is spam or not. Many people in the to
field,
: > unsubrscribe links (then this list could be marked as spam), certain
key
: > words (then spammers start replacing 'o' with zeros)ect. n the end
it
: > works ok, Spam assisin flags what it thinks is spam and you have to
delete
: > it or not. You can have it move to a differnt folder so it's not in
your
: > inbox.If you automatically delete mail you run the risk of deleteing
stuff
: > thats not really spam, nothing is going to be 100%. In the end only
you
: > can judge if it is spam or not.
: >
: > Joseph Lukasiewicz said:
: >
: >>Q1) If I don't keep on top of my inbox I have hundreds of junk
e-mail
: >>messages in there.  Has anyone tried this or a similar product and
have
: >>they had any luck? Q2) I was wondering if a second Linux list was
going
: >>to be started just for meeting announcements?  I love the back and
forth
: >>but some times it's 10 messages a day, and I feel like I catch the
tail
: >>end of the conversation so I can't quite get the gist of the
: >>conversation.  Would a CHAT room facility offer a better vehicle for
: >>these conversations? Just wondering.
: >>Joe Lukasiewicz
: >> Annie at TurboRocketOffers
: >><AnnieatTurboRocketOffers-replyto-366-135875581 at lists.zoanmail.com>
: >>wrote:To:
: >>From: "Annie at TurboRocketOffers"
: >>
: >>Subject: Wipe Out Junk eMail Forever
: >>Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:16:03 GMT
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:
: Funny thing, I'm dealing with SpamAssasin right now (just installed it
: -- I need to check the docs) and also using privoxy under RH8. I've
: heard good things about bogofilter too; it's a Bayesian filter by Eric
: Raymond, there's a few RPM's floating around for it.
:
: I'll let you know what I find out since the spamming here is so
massive;
: 2 weeks >= 1000 messages.... of which maybe only a dozen were actually
: desired. And no, I *refuse* to change my addy... because I shouldn't
: have to.
:
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