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Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Sep 20 12:02:55 PDT 2006
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:55:43PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2006.09.20 10:40:47 +0000, Jacula Modyun wrote:
> > Today do the spammers and viruses give a party in th FreeBsd mailing lists?
> > Here it is raining cats and dogs from spammers.
>
> Yes, unfortunately the spam filter program decided to kill itself and
> had to be manually restarted, so only the basic first level filter,
> which is run on the incoming mail server, was active for a while.
>
> BTW. thanks for sending your mail to the proper list for such things
> so we don't add more noise to the normal lists talking about the spam
> compared to the actual spam mails.
BTW, those of you who were bothered by the increase in spam should
look at setting up bogofilter; it handled the extra spam load
transparently and none of them got through to my mail folders (in fact
I wouldn't have noticed the problem at all if there hadn't been a
series of messages from less spam-resistant users complaining about it
:-).
Kris
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