mailing list politics

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:25:11AM -0400, Bob Keyes wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Rich Braun wrote:
> 
> > What to do about spam?  For now, get SpamAssassin and install the ancillary
> > utilities (Razor2, dcc, pyzor).  You need all three of the spam-database
> > thingies to get it up to 99% effectiveness.
> >
> > It really *does* work quite well now.  I still get 70 spams a day but fewer
> > than 1% get through without getting tagged (and summarily circular-filed).
> 
> I am feeling find of beat up by this list on my use of TMDA. But I have
> looked at other solutions, and they haven't worked well. TMDA has worked
> fairly well for me, and the spam count is down from one per MINUTE to one
> per WEEK.

Please remember -- I didn't flame you because you use TMDA, I flamed you
for not configuring it well enough. The URL I pointed you at would show
you two methods of solving the problem.

-dsr-


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