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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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On 3 Jun 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to:  <20020603120653.C4940@work.bitmover.com>
> By author:    Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:00:46PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > >   Anti-spam technology really needs constant evolution, as those
> > >   spammers do evolve themselves...
> >
> > If ever there was something which was screaming for an open source project,
> > it's spam filtering.  It seems like every major mailing list has someone
> > like Matti, working really hard on a thankless task, but losing out under
> > the tide of new spam every day.  Seems to me if there was a public repository
> > (sourceforge, bkbits, whatever) with a collection of procmail filters which
> > have been shown to work correctly, that would be a win.
> >
>
> The biggest problem is that you're bound to get sued, so you have to
> worry about legal defence...

... the other problem with this kind of filters is that all emails coming
from marketing/biz ppl inside companies will result as spam ...
( that is actually true :-) )



- Davide


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