On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:42:11PM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
Hello. What is dspam? How hard is it to set up? Is it similar to Spam Assassin? I'm running qmail under Linux and had an extremely hard time setting up spam filtering, so I eventually gave up. I have not heard of that antispam package before. More information would be appreciated.
I did a very informal comparison of dspam to Spam Assassin, and found them to be about the same. They have some different features, but basically both "learn" based on your mail patterns. dspam takes a little longer to get trained, and is tuned to have a very low portion of false positives (that is, it very seldom flags non-spam as spam). With any spam filter, though, it's important to periodically check the logs or spam folders, to see what messages were misidentified as spam.
To stay on topic, I have received no spam from the pglaf.org lists and I do not run a spam filter locally.
If people could forward spam items to me that were distributed via the lists.pglaf.org server, I can look into how they got to the list. I'll also look into obfuscating email addresses in the logs (via transforming the @ or similar techniques). This is sometimes done automatically with Pipermail (which manages our Mailman archives, I believe), but doesn't seem to be happening. Sorry about that.... I'm still looking for a volunteer to manage the mailing lists, by the way. It takes just a few minutes per day (every day). -- Greg