Re: spam howto

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 11/17/05

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    Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:25:30 +0000
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    kamaraju kusumanchi on 17/11/05 13:10, wrote:
    > Matt Price wrote:
    >
    >> Hi folks,
    >>
    >> Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up
    >> bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble;
    >> the process sometimes seems incredibly complex.
    >> Any help out there?
    >>
    >> Matt
    >>
    >>
    >>
    > In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to public
    > archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists through a
    > gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and filters
    > almost 95% of the spam. But the gmail web interface is not that great
    > (no thread view, cannot easily delete emails etc.,). So I use pop
    > functionality of gmail account and read these emails by using
    > thunderbird (you can also use other email clients such as mutt etc.,)
    >
    > The above solution works 90% of the time but it is not the proper way of
    > spam filtering (I think). But hey! it works and I dont need to spend
    > time about reading thousands of lines of documentation.

    That sounds like a pretty good filter rate. I'm relying on Thunderbird's
    built-in spam filter which is meant to train itself but it's no more
    than 60% to 70% effective. Adam 

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