There is a program called spamassasin which uses metrics to try and detect spam. Different things award "points" to the message. You can have an action done if it goes over a certain threshold.
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Alexander Maassen wrote: > Nah, that would be too much of a headache, what if that moderator ain't > available ? That would make the pending list grow and grow and ... > > Most spam does contain the same stuff all over and over again, the so called > unsubscribe feature (wich of course does not work and only generates more > spam). Perhaps make something with procmail that checks the contents of the > mail and from there put suspicious mails aside to be send into the list > later when they turn out not to be spam. > > Kev himself said that html posts are not allowed, so maybe indeed reject em > right away (or simply remove any attachments so only the plaintext version > stays alive). If someone wants to submit a file, then perhaps put an ftp > server up somewhere that allows uploads (with certain limits off course). > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Spamfilter > > > > We could have non-subbed-members set to send to the moderator instead of > > the whole list? > > Then at least someone has to approve their postage... > > > > At 13:11 15/03/02 -0600, you wrote: > > >Spam is not so easy to reject. I'll try to keep up with filtering better > > >though. And HTML, sure if you want me to outright reject it, fine. > > > > > >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Alexander Maassen wrote: > > > > > > > Short and simple question: How about rejecting spam in this list ? And > > > > simply filter out /deny HTML posts. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Stacy Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://pfft.net/stacy > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > >Famous last words: Oh yeah, it's fireproof. > > > -- ---------------| Daniel Dent | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ---------------| char number_of_bugs; // *No-one* needs more than 256 bugs. Don't be silly.
