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Jeff Sadowski jeff.sadowski at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 21:07:27 EDT 2007


can you require more than one line(100 characters at least) in your filter?
Most problems take a few lines to ask
spit it back to the sender say they will need to describe the problem
better that one line doesn't cut it. I guess you already filter mail
that only has one picture I see a lot of those on my work email.

On 11/3/07, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> Jeff Sadowski spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > why is this mailing list getting ms spam?
>
> It's not really "ms spam", it's just spam.  And it's getting spam
> because it receives hundreds of spams per day, and a couple have
> leaked through the filter.  Unfortunately, due to the way the filter
> works, if one leaks, several are likely leak in succession until
> someone (me) gets in to refile them.
>
> It's almost like we don't have archives, where this is answered half a
> dozen times...
>
> Ethan
>
> --
> The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy
> for evils].  They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
> determined to commit crimes.
>                 -- Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments", 1764
>
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