-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 March 2004 03:55 am, Nigel Wade wrote: > Charles Howse wrote: > > jdow has pointed me to a page with custom rulesets: > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets > > but I'm still interested in comments or generic settings for my > > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. Anyone care to share? > > I'm not sure there really are any generic settings in user_prefs. The > entire point of user_prefs is for user specific custom settings. "Generic" may have been a bad choice of words. I have 'score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5' in my user_prefs, and as a Linux user, I consider that something that should be there. It's that kind of thing I'm talking about. > > One thing I always do, however, with a new install of SA is to set any > tests which have negative scores to zero. The spammers are no longer > stupid, and they know SA is used in many servers so deliberately target SA. > If there's a way to reduce the SA score they will exploit it, so I remove > the negative scores before they get a chance. One specific case was when SA > assigned a negative score to a Subject: field with Re: in it. How many > spams now have Re: in the subject? **Lots** of spams now have Re: in the subject. You lost me when you talked about setting tests with negative scores to zero. Can you talk a little more about that, please? BTW, I noticed in the header of my original message that one of the charter.net clustered mail servers is blacklisted... X-RedHat-Blacklist-Warning: Relay 209.225.28.220 is blacklisted by SORBS X-RedHat-Spam-Score: 4.8 **** Do you think that there are so many spammers with a charter.net domain name that eventually all their mail servers may end up blacklisted...? What does "RedHat" in the header info refer to? Did the RedHat.com list server insert that line, or does it just refer to the operating system? Whose computer inserted that line? - -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYX15/S+VsB9RMKgRAlbpAKCdJ3ur3k4fe75I9T1XViMlKNwJYgCghhHU xWpBXdDAEbQ29zDpvTXF8QI= =WkqX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
