enabling spam filter

[Matthew Miller]

You don't usually see 'em because they hit the moderation queue, but this
list gets a ridiculous amount of spam. I've enabled spam filtering and will
now automatically discard highly-scored spam messages. This shouldn't affect
any legitimate messages, but if you post and it doesn't get through... that
might be it and I'll look at adjusting the settings.

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[Haïkel]

Le 30/03/2014 18:54, Matthew Miller a écrit :
>  You don't usually see 'em because they hit the moderation
> queue, but this
>  list gets a ridiculous amount of spam. I've enabled spam filtering and will
>  now automatically discard highly-scored spam messages. This shouldn't affect
>  any legitimate messages, but if you post and it doesn't get through... that
>  might be it and I'll look at adjusting the settings.
>  
do you need help for moderating the list ?

regards,
H.

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 06:56:07PM +0200, Haïkel Guémar wrote:
>  >You don't usually see 'em because they hit the moderation
> queue, but this
>  >list gets a ridiculous amount of spam. I've enabled spam filtering and will
>  >now automatically discard highly-scored spam messages. This shouldn't affect
>  >any legitimate messages, but if you post and it doesn't get through... that
>  >might be it and I'll look at adjusting the settings.
>  do you need help for moderating the list ? 
I don't think so, but thanks. The basic problem right now is that the
moderation queue so full of spam that looking for legitimately held messages
is the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack. More people just means
more people being annoyed by that. :) By auto-discarding the messages which
are clearly spam, the moderation queue should be something actually useful.

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[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 13:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

>  I don't think so, but thanks. The basic problem right now is that
> the
>  moderation queue so full of spam that looking for legitimately held messages
>  is the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack. More people just means
>  more people being annoyed by that. :) By auto-discarding the messages which
>  are clearly spam, the moderation queue should be something actually useful.
>   
So just a plug for dspam. Its a learning spam filter and once trained
does *wonders* for us on many systems. With the archives it should be
easy to quickly train it and the packages are in Fedora/EPEL. :)

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 09:48:24PM -0600, Nathanael d. Noblet wrote:
>  So just a plug for dspam. Its a learning spam filter and once
> trained
>  does *wonders* for us on many systems. With the archives it should be
>  easy to quickly train it and the packages are in Fedora/EPEL. :) 
Fedora Infrastructure hooked up spamassassin, so that's what we're using
now. We'll see how it goes. :)

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[Dave Neary]

Hi,

I'm a fan of the SA integration (there was a bug I needed to fix to get
it working mind - check logs to see if you have the same, one of the SA
functions changed prototype in the last ~6 years) - I've found that a
lot of spam requests get through it with the default ratings (5->hold,
10->drop) - afetr a period of gaining confidence, I switched these to
3->hold, 5->drop with a list member bonus of -5 (that might be a bit
aggressive for other lists).

Cheers,
Dave.

On 03/31/2014 02:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 09:48:24PM -0600, Nathanael d. Noblet wrote:
> > So just a plug for dspam. Its a learning spam filter and once trained
> > does *wonders* for us on many systems. With the archives it should be
> > easy to quickly train it and the packages are in Fedora/EPEL. :)
>  
>  Fedora Infrastructure hooked up spamassassin, so that's what we're using
>  now. We'll see how it goes. :)
>   
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