Im actually looking into putting a spamassasin front end for listserv lists
as well.  From experience with spamassasin elsewhere id say set listserv
request adrs with very high scores.  Then do the lists themselves at a lower
level perhaps different for each list depending on their public/private
status, load, etc..   So in short do not do a site wide score but a per user
score.
 
WRTO what to do with the spam-marked message; id suggest that you DO NOT
return to sender but just /dev/null.  A return to a forged adr will; 1-have
the real user fuming 2-create a loop 3-create additional error messages for
your box to deal with.   

You might initially want to dump all into another directory for a short
while to analyze whats getting caught and tune your scores against false
positives then /dev/null it. 

Or you might use a service that asks for the sender to confirm their email
authenticity by clicking on a link and adding them to your whitelist.  
Since the message specifically asks the user to click a link (http) there is
no valid (or another /dev/null) return email adr catching any loops or error
messages.   I ran across this service some time ago but misplaced the link
so if someone else knows what im talking about PLEASE send links on
company/applications that does this.  

Best,
Omer.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Verity
> Sent: 13 Eylül 2006 Çarşamba 22:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: What do you do with spam
> 
> We plan to run Spamassasin on our listserv machine to 
> identify spam as soon as we have a faster machine.  Question 
> is what to do with it 
> after it is identified.   Our thought is to simply reject any mail 
> that scores "high" from spamassassin.  The value of high is yet to be 
> determined.   This may make spamcop at little happier, but probably 
> not enough to keep us off their list.
> --
> Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he 
> gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he 
> sticks his head out the window?
> 
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