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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Ben Stuyts wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I've been a bit annoyed about the level of spam lately on this list, so I'd 
> like to share my spam filter (for procmail) taylored for mgetty. I've had it 
> in use for the last week, and it seems to catch all the spam. (And the 
> subscribe messages too.) It works really simple, but I think it shows promise.
> 

I personnaly use a filter that looks at the source of the message and dump
it to a folder. It seems to be more effective than looking at the subject
line, esp when multiple spams come from a variety of sites. Here is one
that has evolved over time:

:0:
* -5^0
* 10^0 ^Received:.*ispam
* 10^0 ^Received:.*opportunityhotline
* 10^0 ^Received:.*sprhwy
* 10^0 ^Received:.*directsend
* 10^0 ^Received:.*uniquepo
* 10^0 ^Received:.*tnlb
* 10^0 ^Received:.*beol
* 10^0 ^Received:.*worldnet
* 10^0 ^Received:.*wwa
* 10^0 ^Received:.*cmu
* 10^0 ^Received:.*hoek
* 10^0 ^Received:.*shiver
* 10^0 ^Received:.*crynwr
* 10^0 ^Received:.*ntu\.ac
* 10^0 ^Received:.*qlink2info
* 10^0 ^Received:.*batnet
* 10^0 ^Received:.*cscent
* 10^0 ^Received:.*postech\.ac
* 10^0 ^Received:.*nevwest
* 10^0 ^Received:.*datadepot
* 10^0 ^Received:.*hitsrus
* 10^0 ^Received:.*netkonect
* 10^0 ^Received:.*chs\.kso
* 10^0 ^Received:.*ccw
* 10^0 ^Received:.*bicnet
* 10^0 ^Received:.*freeyellow
* 10^0 ^Received:.*c-flash
trash

basically, it uses the 'scoring' technique, if any of the sites is a
match, the message gets dumped to my trash folder. Alternately to
dev\null.

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