You're preaching to the choir, Nathan.

Unfortunately, there are people that were/are concerned about false-positives from the spam filters, so we just flag the messages, and let the user enable filtering to a "Spam" folder if they so desire. Fortunately, neither bandwitdth or cycles are issues.

-CW

Christopher Wilson
ISS Enterprise Systems
The George Washington University
801 22nd St, NW 
Washington, DC 20052
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, November 24, 2006 10:28 am
Subject: Re: ListServ 14.5 question
To: [log in to unmask]


> Yes, but why not drop it as soon as it's determined to be spam?
> 
> By sending it on instead of dropping it, all you're doing is wasting 
> bandwidth and cycles.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> At 09:56 AM 11/24/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> >Or, depending on the MTA that is running on your Listserv box you may 
> be able to have that check and drop messages based on certain 
> criteria. That way, at least, the messages never make it to Listserv. 
> The IronPorts that we use to handle inbound mail are currently 
> dropping viruses but only flagging the spam that comes through. Using 
> Postfix as an MTA, I just have a rule in the header checks that sends 
> anything that got flagged as spam to the bit bucket. 
> >
> >Any link in the chain can handle dropping mail. :-)
> >
> >-CW  
> >
> >Christopher Wilson
> >ISS Enterprise Systems
> >The George Washington University
> >801 22nd St, NW 
> >Washington, DC 20052
> >[log in to unmask]
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
> >Date: Friday, November 24, 2006 9:33 am
> >Subject: Re: ListServ 14.5 question
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >> At 09:26 AM 11/24/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >On Nov 24, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Graham Tolliver wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >>We are running ListServ version 14.5.
> >> >>
> >> >>Our mail is spam scored via a Anti Virus machine, so I would like 
>  
> >> >>to discard any messages scored at a particular number.
> >> >>
> >> >>Does ListServ have the ability to do something with the message 
> if  
> >>
> >> >>a certain condition is triggered
> >> >
> >> >I don't know, but can't you configure your anti-virus server to  
> >> >simply not send messages with a particular score to your Listserv?
> >>
> >> That would be my thought, too.  Why forward them on to LISTSERV if 
> 
> >> they're unacceptable to the spam filter?  It's better to reject 
> them 
> >> at the AV machine and never bother LISTSERV with them.
> >>
> >> If there's no way to do that then you will probably have to look at 
> 
> >> writing an exit program to parse the message for the score and 
> reject 
> >> it if it's too high.  You should be able to use SPAM_EXIT for this 
> purpose.
> >>
> >> Nathan