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RE: Spam on list
- From: "Koeller, T." <Thomas dot Koeller at baslerweb dot com>
- To: "ecos-discuss (E-Mail)" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:20:59 +0200
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Spam on list
Would it be feasible to at least remove those spam mails
from the list archive, perhaps manually?
tk
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Basler Vision Technologies
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Tel +49 (4102) 463-390
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iztok Zupet [mailto:iz@vsr.si]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:12 PM
> To: Andrew Lunn
> Cc: Gary Thomas; Koeller, T.; ecos-discuss (E-Mail)
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Spam on list
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:52, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Would it be possible to get a spam filter installed on the mailling
> > lists? Does sources have such a thing for other lists they maintain?
>
> It's very hard to inslall a spam filter filtering spam from public
> mailders, like Hotmail. The spammers send their mails using different
> address on a public mailer every time. You can't just put the whole
> Hotmail into the badmailfrom file.
>
> Better solution is to use a filter looking for well known web or other
> links in the message bodies. That works, but consumes more CPU time.
>
> Regards
> iz
>
>
>
>
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