On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:52, Andrew Lunn wrote:
Would it be possible to get a spam filter installed on the mailling
lists? Does sources have such a thing for other lists they maintain?
It's very hard to install a spam filter filtering spam coming from
public mailers, like Hotmail. The spammers send their mails using
different account on a public mailer every time. You can't just put the
entire Hotmail into the badmailfrom file.
Better solution is to use a filter looking for well known web or other
links in the message bodies. That works, but consumes more CPU time.
I believe there is one already, maintained by hand[1]. May I suggest in
future, if you see a spam that you believe could be used with a filter
(e.g. a Nigerian scam one or whatever), to e-mail
sourcemaster@sources.redhat.com where (hopefully!) someone might be able
to act.