Hi! To reduce the amount of spam in @netfilter.org inboxes, as well as the amount of manual list moderation for our listmaster, I've implemented a couple of additional filters. The biggest part is charset-based filtering. Since the mailinglists and all communication within the project is in english anyway, I see no point in allowing chinese/korean/japanese (sorry, Yasuyuki) mails to netfilter.org in the first place. This seems rude (and it is), and I would never recommend using such filters for a generic mail server. But for a dedicated system like netfilter.org, I think it is fine. Doing some rough statistics, the charset-based filtering can save us more than 90% of the spam that currently passes spamassassin. In addition, we already did some heuristics-based HTML filtering, which does only work for quoted-printable/ascii encodings, but not for base64. We're now doing HTML filtering on the decoded mime content (as well as the mime type of the individual parts) and thus should catch almost all HTML junk. Please direct complaints to coreteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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