Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting mail with multiple From: lines

2011-05-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Stallman writes: > Do you mean to say that the people at CSAIL ought to switch to using > SpamAssasin instead of filtering in Mailman? I don't know anything about CSAIL, so I can't say for that particular case. But I've yet to see a *good* reason for doing generic filtering at the Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting mail with multiple From: lines

2011-05-22 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 5/22/2011 8:44 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: Do you mean to say that the people at CSAIL ought to switch to using SpamAssasin instead of filtering in Mailman? Use the best tool for each job, and know that the Swiss Army knife approach is usually not the best at anything. (Or, why filter out

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting mail with multiple From: lines

2011-05-22 Thread Richard Stallman
Do you mean to say that the people at CSAIL ought to switch to using SpamAssasin instead of filtering in Mailman? Jay, do you see a reason not to do it that way? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org Skype: No way!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to clean old messages

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
alexan...@nautae.eti.br wrote: >>> What would be the best way to completely clean/remove old messages? >> I don't understand your question. > >Ok, trying again: > >A person have sent a message, for example, "message x" to the mailing >list "list x". > >And I don`t know why (it could be a system

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting mail with multiple From: lines

2011-05-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Stallman writes: > It sounds like this new spam technique is becoming xommon. > Would it make sense for Mailman's defaults to DTRT for it, > or reduce the amount of customization users need to do? No. Mailman really shouldn't be doing any spam filtering at all. It needs filtering, ye

Re: [Mailman-Users] Best way to clean old messages

2011-05-22 Thread alexander
What would be the best way to completely clean/remove old messages? I don't understand your question. Ok, trying again: A person have sent a message, for example, "message x" to the mailing list "list x". And I don`t know why (it could be a system error or I don`t know what) the same mes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting mail with multiple From: lines

2011-05-22 Thread Richard Stallman
It sounds like this new spam technique is becoming xommon. Would it make sense for Mailman's defaults to DTRT for it, or reduce the amount of customization users need to do? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org Skyp