Spamassassin anyone???

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Martes Wigglesworth wrote:

> Greetings list.
>
> I was just wondering, why don't they just run spamassassin on the 
> freebsd lists servers?????  I would cut down on spam, and I doubt would 
> be any overhead if it were simply updated.  The servers are sitting in a 
> datacenter somewhere being managed by someone, I don't care how 
> "donated" the server time is.  What happens when there is a hardware 
> failure??? I am sure that we are not talking to each other on a freebsd 
> 3.0 release, so why don't they just install, and use spammassassin to 
> capture this obvious spam??? Or am I just miss informed about how these 
> porn, sex-toy commercials, oh, and don't forget the racist/antysemetic 
> political garbage that come through every month or so???

As much as I agree it is annoying to see, why isn't your spamassassin 
installed / running against your own mailbox picking it up and getting rid 
of it?

I run MAIA Amavisd here, which captures *alot* of the spam, but find alot 
of the various spam's still slip through ...

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