Simon Geard wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:04 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> 
>>Best I can remember, there was a thread not too long ago about
>>SPAM and the final result was:
>>
>>If you don't like it, set up a filter in your mail client.
> 
> 
> That raises an interesting question then. BLFS includes instructions for
> installing more than half a dozen different mail clients.
> 
> If our answer to spam on the mailing lists is to tell people to setup a
> filter, how come the book doesn't include any information on setting up
> client-side spam filtering?

Nor does it address the problems of those who take the lists via NNTP.
Few Usenet readers have sophisticated baysian filters.
R.
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