permaculture

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:27:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Software suggestions for users of this
>         list.
>
> > For spam mail catching I'm using SpamAssassin
> > http://spamassassin.org/. Its catching about 30-40 spams
> > a day. Getting about one false positive a week but
> > letting through about 5 spams a day.
>
>
> Likewise, second that - works very well; quite possibly the best spam
> filter out there.  Mine is pretty much default settings, though I did have
> to raise the spam score threshold a bit because too many messages to this
> list were ending up in my caught-spam folder...
>
> John Schinnerer, MA

The other option is set up procmail or you mail client so that
any email from permaculture-requests is passed through. In procmail
its something like

:0
*permaculture
mailinglistfolder



> From: Conrad Juraschka <conjur@telus.net>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Software suggestions for users of this
>         list.
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> > > p.s. out of interest how many spams are others on the
> > > list receiving?
>
>
> I don¹t receive any spam from being on this list...perhaps my isp catches
> it, I am not sure. I am on a Mac...i wouldn't think that would make a
> difference, but maybe it does.
>
> Conrad Juraschka

Just so people don't get scared. This list is remarkably spam
free, unlike some other list.

I was refering to spam sent to me because my email address
is printed all over the pfaf website. Hence it gets in
every spamers list going.

        Rich

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