Re: spam / viruses [ADMIN please read - Arnt Harald Johansen - com.mysql.lists.gui-tools

8 messages in com.mysql.lists.gui-toolsRe: spam / viruses [ADMIN please read

From	Sent On	Attachments
Ayahuasca	31 Oct 2002 01:40
Aleksander Adamowski	31 Oct 2002 02:56
Arnt Harald Johansen	31 Oct 2002 07:00
Arjen Lentz	31 Oct 2002 13:11
Arnt Harald Johansen	31 Oct 2002 16:16
Aleksander Adamowski	31 Oct 2002 16:29
Arjen Lentz	31 Oct 2002 17:44
Tracy Peterson	03 Nov 2002 08:21

Subject:	Re: spam / viruses [ADMIN please read
From:	Arnt Harald Johansen (arn...@tihlde.org)
Date:	10/31/2002 07:00:16 AM
List:	com.mysql.lists.gui-tools

As I wrote in an email earlier this month, I still think that the best way to fix this and to avoid spam is to have a filter searching the mails for keywords. This should be fairly easy to set up for the administrators of this mailing list...

Deny access to the list for messages that do NOT include the words sql, mycc or any other suitable word...

Ayahuasca wrote:

At the risk of flogging an incredibly dead horse, can't we have some spam / virus filters? Oh pretty please can't we have some filters? I have gone out of my way to avoid spam with my new email address, and currently the only crap I get is from the MySQL mailing lists. And although viruses don't exactly worry me under Linux / Mozilla, some of them are quite large and I pay for my bandwidth bandwidth. In Australia, DSL users pay through the nose, beleive me.

I've noticed that the mailing list manager is ezmlm on Qmail.

Qmail has excellent and easy to set up anti-spam features.

MySQL mail system ADMIN: If you read this, please see those links:

Chris Hardie's qmail Anti-Spam HOWTO: <http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html> Read especially this section of HOWTO: Using your SMTP daemon to reject "known" spammers:

<http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html#sysoption 2>

Adam McKenna's Qmail HOWTO: 12. rblsmtpd: <http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#12>

What RBL (blackhole spammer lists) to use in configurations described above: RBL-Type Services: <http://www.sektorn.mooo.com/era/rbl/rbl.html> Blacklists Compared: <http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/Blacklists%5FCompared.html>

New, experimental method of idenifying spam automatically - Bayesian filters: A "learning" bayesian, content based, spam filter: bayespam 0.9.2 - The qmail spam filter that learns: <http://www.garyarnold.com/projects.php#bayespam> The techonology explained: Paul Graham's A Plan for Spam: <http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html>

Spam _can_ be stopped. May the force be with you,

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