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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Can spam be defeated?
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2006-12-20 22:31:33
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0612202317590.11601 () nimrodel ! valinor
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The Wednesday 2006-12-20 at 15:32 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

> It just keeps getting worse.  I really don't want to change my email address, 
> but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox.  I 
> don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to be able to 
> block these idiots.  I'm running a postfix mail server.  Is there an easy was 
> to thwart spam?  I use the filters built into KMail, but they seem almost 
> worthless.

SpamAssassin, with a well trained bayes database, can filter most of the 
spam. I get over a hundred daily, and perhaps two false negatives a week. 
The false positives I get are all due to over zealous network tests: I had 
to reduce their score.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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