[Coco] Re: spam in this list

[Arthur Flexser]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

> As for asking Princeton's IT folks? The spam arguments go back two
> years, getting worse and worse. (If you thought it was a bad idea when
> it was proposed, you could have gone that route and contacted Princeton
> to see if they could help out.)
> 
> Spam filters require training. It's taken months to train my own spam
> filters (Spam Assassin with Bayes filters) to reject what comes through
> the bit.listserv.coco gate -- and still as much gets through as do
> messages. In any case, that would require engaging princeton.edu in the
> process of managing spam filters for the group. If I were that sysadmin
> with all the on-campus bandwidth issues from file trading and swen
> viruses, I'd say, 'hey, how long has this group been using our server?'
> and cut it off within the hour.
> 

Actually, Princeton ALREADY is classifying the spam sent to the
list;  they just aren't filtering any of it out.  I would think it would
take little effort on their part to automatically kill any message whose
"X-Spam-Level" header is one asterisk's worth or greater.

Art