At 12:08 AM 8/15/2002 -0700, Dan Kohn wrote: >In defense of admins setting up SpamAssassin across a site, all >SpamAssassin does is add a bunch of headers to the mail. It's then up >to the users to decide what threshold to filter on, if at all. The nature of doing heuristic rulesets on naturally occurring text makes it extremely difficult to do a good job. My own view is that spamassassin is remarkably effective. At any rate, getting rulesets right is simply not a reasonable task for admins. Rule-writing is not admin. Very different skillsets. The only criticism of the code is that it understands a restricted set of of RFC822 address format. It ain't the first to do that. Many user agents do, too. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850