Kyle H on 5 Oct 2003 13:07:30 -0000


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Re: [eia] spam


    Thanks for the suggestions!  I'll look into them and see which one might
work best for me.

kdh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] spam


> Thus spake Joel Uckelman:
> > Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> > > I haven't gotten any spam with an [eia] header on it so far, so I
guess I'm
> > > OK at this point.  Sorry you're having trouble.
> > >
> > > -JJY
> >
> > I think Kyle means through france@xxxxxxxxx, not through the list.
> > My guess is it's because the game addresses appeared in the archive for
a
> > long time before I discovered that MHonArc (the archiver) could mask
them.
> > The addresses still appear in the really old archives, because I haven't
> > had time to rebuild them.
> >
> > Anyway, I'd suggest using a Bayesian spam filter to sort your incoming
> > mail. I'm using one; despite receiving about 40 spams a day, I average
> > fewer than 1 a week in my inbox, and have even fewer false positives.
> >
> > --
> > J.
>
> Here are a few implementations of Bayesian spam filters:
>
> Bogofilter: This is the one I use. It's Unix only.
> http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
>
> Spambayes: My future father-in-law uses this one. There's a plugin for
> Outlook (not Outlook Express!); if you use anything else you also need to
> install Python.
> http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
>
> POPFile: I've heard good things about this one, though I don't know anyone
> who uses it.
> http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> J.
>
>
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