Perl-based so you should be able to just stick it somewhere. I use it in
my
.procmailrc and I think it gets 90% or so without much tweaking, probably
would
do better if I turned on some of the more advanced features.
Of course, if your sysadmin isn’t running procmail I’m not sure of how you
would make use of it conveniently.
On Apr 16, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Could someone point me to an open-source SPAM filter that I can install
on
a computer where I’m not the sysadmin?
I’m on a Solaris system, so I’d most likely need something available in
source form so I can compile it for this platform.
Thanks.
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
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I believe the ruby-talk group is already filtered by SpamAssassin.
What does that mean? No, I am not trying to troll, I simply do not
understand how the filtering takes place. Three ideas did cross my
mind but all of them are not in accord with observation:
Every time SPAM posted to the newsgroup hits the mailinglist
gateway a bot sends cancel messages? That would soon result in the
gateway held incommunicado.
Every time SpamAssassin identifies a news posting as SPAM it is not
forwareded to the mailing list? That would mean that reactions to
the SPAM that are posted to the newsgroup would result in “What are
you talking about?” messages by those who using this group in mail
mode.
Every time SpamAssassin identifies a news posting as SPAM it is not
forwareded to the newsgroup? That would be the same with both
groups exchanged.
Could anybody explain what is actually done?
Finally a remark on the ‘[OT]’ - I don’t see why it is off-topic to
talk about Ruby programs to filter SPAM.