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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: SPAM filter
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-30 11:54:00
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#if Stephan Kulow
> Hi!
> 
> As SPAM became lately a massive plague, I decided that I have to fight harder 
> against them. If you look in the mail headers, it's tagged with a 
> X-Spam-Rating sind quite some time already. If the number reaches 1000, it is 
> rejected. But there was a lot of SPAM that was quite hard to differentiate 
> from normal mails by regular expressions ;(
> 
> So I went and made these numbers more aggressive. And the mailing list 
> software will hold mails with numers higher than 550 for approvall by the 
> list admin. I'm planning on making it a bit more intelligent, but only if my 
> time permits. Til then it will happen that the one or the other non-SPAM mail
> ends for approval, but no mail should be lost (at most it's rejected and send 
> back)

So this is why I have had complaints by a person I'm working with that
two mails that they have sent to me have been rejected as SPAM ? I am
going to have to stop using my @kde.org address if I can't get important
mail through :(

Rik

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