[ILUG] digest email

[Aj McKee]

I have to agree to a certain extent with Colm when he says it is client
side, however is the best way to combat spam a combination of both? That way
less and less spam will reach the list. But please keep it in mind that
everyone involved in ilug is a volunteer and have other commitments.

Aj

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donncha O Caoimh" <donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com>
To: "Mark Kilmartin" <mrk at renre-europe.com>; <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] digest email


> The Cork list is subscriber only as it's a very low traffic list. It gets
> about 12-14 spams a day, usually about 30 or more at the weekend. The ILUG
is
> better known so I wouldn't like to imagine the amount of time Colm spends
> going through "Search for discard", click discard, search, discard, etc.
(if
> you've used the mailman admin interface you'll know what I mean!)
>
> Spamassasin is going to make an appearance on the site eventually but that
> won't happen before a server upgrade AFAIR. (and that's a while away!)
>
> Donncha.
>
>
> On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:17, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> > Can one of the admins give us an idea of the amount of spam that is
> > already trapped by the existing spam filters that I understand are in
> > place?
> >
> > This will give everybody an idea of the percentage that actually gets
> > true.
> > And we might realize that this isn't as big a problem as we think.
> >
> > MArk
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:12, nils Olofsson wrote:
> > > Just on spam again...
>
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