Date   : Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:30:43 +1300
From   : zz9pluralzalpha@... (Bill Keesing)
Subject: [OT] Spam Coming through mailing list

James Fidell wrote:
> 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.)
>   
I only realised this was happening as a result of the thread. I use
Thunderbird which does both a superb job in spam filtering and was
dropping all those emails in the Junk Mail folder. I can highly
recommend it.