[pmmail-list] Spam Filtering - HOW?

[Steve Ewing]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:29 -0500, Dave wrote:

>These days it is rarely wrong.  When it is, the 
>problem is often that I have friends who are also members of 
>groups.  When they reply to me, their reply is somewhere between a 
>friend and a group.  How PMMail interprets it is dependent on 
>where I put my filters.

That's what killed my score; when I started filtering the mailing
lists I'm on to screen out the auto-responses triggered by Sobig.F. 
For the PMMail list I just use a magnet; on the lists I targeted I
removed the magnet and had to start out fresh.  It still mis-files a
couple, mainly really short messages that force it to rely on the
header info.

I personally would rather get all the messages and do my own sorting
(via PopFile or some-such)  than rely on my mail admin-- which also
happens to be me ;) , but in principle, I mean-- to block anything on
my behalf.  Then again, that is the joy of broadband; were I still on
dialup, or getting more than my 10-15 spams per day, I might be more
pro-active.  There are always services like SpamCop that filter your
email based on real-time stats rather than, say, using the RBL or
other blacklists.



--
Steve<steve@qmss.com>
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing


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