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 -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.