[CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?
Lance Davis
lance at centos.org
Fri Jan 4 20:09:38 UTC 2008
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>> Matt Shields wrote:
>>> Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list.
>>
>> Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the
>> "user" was subscribed.
>
> We have Mailman configured to check with spamassassin, sending messages
> with sufficiently high scores to the moderator(s) for approval and
> automatically discarding anything with a score > 20. Thus anything with
> scores between our required_score of 5 and 20 is held for moderation.
We checked the score on one of the messages and it was less than 1
(although of course that depends on spamassassin config ...)
> While this isn't perfect, fewer than 1 spam per month has made it through
> to any of the lists we host in the last year (at least one of which I
> approved accidentally :-).
We are happy if you have specialist knowledge in this area for you to help
us configure our mailman to act likewise.
Perhaps we could take this off list.
Regards
Lance
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