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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: SPAM filter
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-30 14:23:16
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On Friday, 30. November 2001 12:54, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #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 :(
>
I'm sorry for every blocked non-SPAM mail, but it's a fact that there is no 
simple way around that problem and people complain more and more about the
SPAM. I added now a rule to the spam filter that let's all 
(To|CC):.*rik@kde.org pass through. 

Greetings, Stephan

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