Re: Why can't ISPs stop spam/virus ?!
From: Timothy Murphy (tim_at_birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 09/22/03
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:43:01 +0100
>> The much-loved "SpamAssassin" was letting most of them through, and
>> some fairly smart people have worked on that one. ISP staff that are
>> lucky if they know how to deal with all the hardware they bought
>> aren't likely to do as well.
I didn't see the original posting,
but "score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 6.0"
in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs
will stop almost all if not all of these,
in my experience.
Of course the stuff is still downloaded,
which is usually the main problem.
-- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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