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Re: [Fwd: Meta-issue: recent spam surge]


From: Derek Robert Price
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Meta-issue: recent spam surge]
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:00:38 -0400

David Taylor wrote:

> Derek Robert Price wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any objections to this spam filter being applied to the
> > info-cvs and bug-cvs lists?
> >
> > Aside from the "(no subject)" filter which would filter the cvsbug
> > generated emails on bug-cvs, of course.
> >
> > Derek
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: Re: Meta-issue: recent spam surge
> > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:17:52 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
> > To: "Lars J. Aas" <larsa@sim.no>
> > CC: Derek Robert Price <dprice@collab.net>, <automake@gnu.org>
> >
> > > I'm not really comfortable modifying list settings on lists I'm not
> > > "affiliated with", even if I could.  The maintainers for those lists
> > > should just pick it up from the mailman settings for the autoconf list...
> > > (It's in the Privacy Settings section).
> >
> > bounce_matching_headers for mc-devel@gnome.org:
> >
> > Subject:[ (]*no subject[) ]*$
> > Subject: *$
> > Subject: *[A-Za-z]scribe$
> > Subject:.*                     .*
> > Subject:.*[^A-Za-z](product|sex|stock|revenue|sale|rich|toner|manegment|adv)[^A-Za-z]
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Is this a typo? I hope it wasn't intended to filter messages with 
> "management" in the
> subject, e.g.:

Actually, it was a copy and paste error.  I copied this from another email list 
because it
sounded like a good idea in general and didn't think about all the filter words 
for long.


> "CVS management of /etc - permissions problem"
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-September/019826.html
>
> "release management with CVS"
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-September/019846.html
>
> Filtering out messages with "product" in the subject prohibits an innocent 
> message like:
>
> "Questions about your product "
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-May/014773.html
>
> And anyone that  has a problem checking in a Rich Text Format document had 
> better not
> state that in the subject.

Per my other message, I'm thinking that I'll remove `management' and `product' 
from the
filter list, but I'm thinking that as long as the filter bounces messages back 
to the
sender with the list of filtered words, it should be okay.  Most spam artists 
shouldn't be
able to adapt since they aren't using real email addresses anyhow.

Derek





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