Re: [SA-LIST] Subject not changed

2004-10-07 Thread Tom Meunier
Jim Maul wrote: The subject is not changed if there is no subject. This is a feature, not a bug. -Jim Just out of curiosity, what benefit is provided by this feature? -tom

Re: Subject line

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Meunier
Jim Maul wrote: Also, i dont see how it would break alphabetical sorting any more than mail clients inserting Re: before the subject. All I have to test with here is Outlook, Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird. They all ignore RE: and FWD: when sorting by subject. They don't ignore [L

Re: Subject line

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Meunier
Bret Miller wrote: Having a simple prefix in the subject line makes life a lot easier. Precisely *how* does it make life "easier"? It makes life easier if you stuff a few related lists into a single mailbox. I don't get it. I only have the one mailbox and a dozen lists, and they s

Re: Subject line

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Meunier
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Michele Neylon::Blacknight Solutions wrote: Hear hear. By the way, the list is run on mailman, so it's definitely possible. Nope. EZMLM. Did someone HAVE a good reason for why it's not happening? I can live with a four-character longer subj

Re: Subject line

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Meunier
Predrag Lezaic wrote: Would it be possible to have emails to this list have something such as "[SA-LIST} Subject here" in the subject line for easier sorting of the emails in folders? This is actually the first list am using that doesn't have anything unique in the subject. This has been discu

Re: Lotus Notes

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Meunier
Max wrote: Hi This is a header of a mail sent via Lotus Notes and I noticed no false positives from Lotus Notes I running Spamassassin 2.63 with some ruleset from SARE and Amavisd-new / Max X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.12 February 13, 2003 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.7 tagged_above=-50.0 re

Re: SPF and spammers

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Meunier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the most part and I'd say 99.999 (maybe add more 9's)% of the time, the SPF result is "None". You can't do anything effective with that. On average, you'll need to receive more than 100,000 emails to receive ONE from a domain with an SPF record? Impossible. You g

Re: Just how many addresses are there for this list?

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Meunier
Don't use the To: address field, use the List-Id if your MUA can do it: List-Id: "SpamAssassin Users" users@spamassassin.apache.org Oh, pooh. Timely (or perhaps prescient?) question, it seems they're coming across as List-ID: now.

Re: SPF and spammers

2004-09-11 Thread Tom Meunier
Mike Burger wrote: The problem, however, is that SPF's usability also relies on MX records. In my case, I have 2 MX records, and my SPF record is set up thusly: "v=spf1 a mx -all" Essentially saying that all my MX records are valid senders, as well. All the spammer has to do is list those server

Re: Just how many addresses are there for this list?

2004-09-11 Thread Tom Meunier
Robert Nicholson wrote: So far I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] users@spamassassin.apache.org Trying to filter all mail to this list. Howdy Robert, Does your mail client allow you to filter on the headers? I use List-ID: contains the string [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -tom

Re: emacs rmail. How to use the spamassassin headers set up on the system.

2004-09-10 Thread Tom Meunier
Don Saklad wrote: Thank you for the information folks ! Have any of you nice folks any further information or references that would be of any use to people using emacs rmail with no mastery of computers trying to see what they can do with the spamassassin headers set up for them on the system by te

Re: Usability. Spamassassin.

2004-09-08 Thread Tom Meunier
Don Saklad wrote: Here's the original question that did not get through !... http://zork.net/~dsaklad/usabilityspamassassin.html Are you aware that no question actually appears anywhere on that page? It seems like it's perhaps a statement of frustration. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-qu

Re: Usability. Spamassassin.

2004-09-08 Thread Tom Meunier
Chris Santerre wrote: Is MIT teaching a course in useless sarcasim now? Both of your responses do nothing to help this conversation. Next time Bob might just answer RTFM, instead of actually trying to help you. http://www.stormloader.com/saklad/ Don is um... probably not looking for an answer. H

Re: Bayes scoring question

2004-09-05 Thread Tom Meunier
Theodore Heise wrote: This seems counterintuitive to me, based on my understanding of probability and statistics (which is admitedly just enough to be dangerous). Is this a result of some interaction? For example a message that meets BAYES_99 is also more likely to trigger some network tests, so