Date   : Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:46:48 +0100
From   : james@... (James Fidell)
Subject: [OT] Spam Coming through mailing list

Joel Rowbottom wrote:
> At 03:05 25/10/2006, Jon Ripley wrote:
> 
>> If up to three spam a day were being posted to this mailing list via
>> the BBC Micro mailing list server then why are none of these spam on
>> the archive?
> 
> Agree.
> 
> I've just spent 10 minutes grepping the logs of my mail system for the
> past few months, and pretty much everything is showing as a -ve
> SpamAssassin score. Even if it got through my filters I'd have expected
> said spam to have a +ve score. Consequently I don't actually believe
> it's coming to the list at all.

Thanks for your support, Joel :)

I am prepared to believe however that some spam may have slipped through
the net recently.  One of the side-effects of the old server dying is
that spamassassin was falling on its arse on occasion and thus messages
were creeping through unscanned.  (There are also some cunningly-
constructed spam messages going around at the moment that seem to creep
past SA's filters.  I'll be working on that shortly.)

James