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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: SPAM filter
From:       molnar () kde ! org
Date:       2001-11-30 13:48:17
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Just wondering what generates the X-Spam-Rating? I get a lot of mail from 
credible users on yahoo.com, aol.com and hotmail.com and I am wondering if this change
is going to block mail from them or is it not affecting the forwarded @kde.org 
addresses but just the mailing lists?

-Chris


On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:44:02AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 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)
> 

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