On Wednesday 30 March 2005 21:38, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > I used my previous address for +10 years and it is now getting 200-400 > spams a day. Sure I can filter it, but looking for false-positives is just > impossible with this much spam coming in. So I've now gone through with > the painful operation of changing my address, and now get a lot less spam > (actually almost none). I know I won't be spam free forever, but any steps > to slow down the spam flood is _very_ welcome. Hiding addresses in openly > available archives is one easy step to take - less spam to filter, > everybody wins. Back then when I started with bogofilter I feed it with ~1000 collected spam mails and ~10000 good mails from lists and private mail. Since then I update it with the spam slipping through. That way I have reduced spam to currently 2-5 a day. You might train your filter with the archives of this list while you are admin. :-) Arnold -- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20050330/028d3b42/attachment.bin
