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* A spamthing we can use??
@  Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6)
   ` brian Moore
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6) @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Hi all.  I figure tis time to tinker and figure out how to set up a spam 
something or other.  I saw where Kirk, you have something for aproving 
addresses when a message is sent you, so I figure there ***must be 
something we can use after all.  So, wondering where to get such a system. 
I figure if you get messages from lists, you can let them through 
somehow??  So, what would be recommended to gget and where to find it 
would be great.  Thanks.


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* RE: A spamthing we can use??
@  Dawes, Stephen
   ` Reinhard Stebner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.

Check out MailScanner at:
mailscanner.info

MailScanner is a vary powerful tool that will allow you to scan your
mail for spam and viruses.
It also has a process to keep itself up-to-date.
MailScanner has a mail list that is both informative and the people on
it are vary helpful.
 
It is what I use, and I am having no problems with it. 



Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
 


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* RE: A spamthing we can use??
@  Dawes, Stephen
   ` Adam Myrow
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.

It is a Linux application. 
You may have some problems using in a user environment. I suggest you
read up on it at:
MailScanner.info



Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
 


NOTICE -
This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks you for your attention and cooperation.



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* A spamthing we can use?
@  .dan.
   ` Sean McMahon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: .dan. @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup


One approach is the white list.  Instead of using the never ending approach
of finding and always adding to filters looking for possible spam content,
the white list takes the oppisite approach.  Set up a filter that looks for
mail you know you want and exclude everything else.  This is easy to do
using pine's filter functions.  For example, one says to keep any mail
containing an address also in one's addressbook, all else is either deleted
or moved to a seperate file.  My spam fell to 0 using this in pine.  There
is considerable more detail that can make it work easily, but the
addressbook is one example.

                               XB
                                IC|XC


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* A spamthing we can use?
@  .dan.
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: .dan. @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup


Regarding the use of a white list spam filter:

"hmm.  That is a way, how do you get mail from anyone new and how do you
filterout mail which appears to be from an address but is not?
 ".dan." ddunfee@city-net.com"

Look at the last line above.  The .dan., which is period dan period for
those with punctuation turned off, is one device.  If I have sent an email
to a new person it will appear in their response and doesn't get deleted.
Equally so for someone seeing my address on a mailing list or similar
place.  If I know someone is going to send me a message who is new, usually
because I give them my address, I add some part of their address or other
text to the filter to catch it.  If I think I will be getting mail from
them and want to continue to do so I add them to my addressbook.

I subscribe to many mailing lists, by using only the domain and extention
domain type as a trigger text I can get mail from any list using that
service.  Thus one doesn't have to put every address in the addressbook.
Also, the send to and recieve from address of mailing lists are often
different so both would have to be in the addressbook to work.  I can thus
recieve mail from any using the service,ex. yahoogroups, and have the
specific send mail address in my addressbook.
The second part of the question never happens, the spammer would have to
know to include an address or bit of text which triggers the filter to not
to delete mail before it is sent, which is almost impossbile to predict on
their part.
                               XB
                                IC|XC


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