What sort of Anti-Spam solution does this list use

Keith Morse kgmorse
Mon May 17 11:57:37 PDT 2004


On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, James McDonald wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> One thing I have noticed about this list is that it doesn't send me loads of spam, unlike other lists (samba) which when i subscribed to them I now get torrents of "Microsoft Updates".
> 
> What sort of software is the list using to kill this and the many virii that come through?
> 
> 

>From a previous reply one of your post interestingly enough, as follows:

James McDonald wrote:
> How is it that the linux-users list either doesn't attract this sort
> of
> Trash or how do the linux-users list admins stop the detritous from
> coming
> through?

And Doug's reply.

we do a SHITLOAD of filtering at the MTA level
We run:
sendmail+mimedefang+spamassassin+razor+file::scan+clamav

and of course, we have a lot of custom spamassassin rules
- -- 

His tagline was rather pithy also.   What I'm curious about is if he
would be interested in sharing the spamassassin rules that have been
developed?


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