On 2003-10-17 at 10:10 -0700, Kelson Vibber wrote:
I've been using SpamAssassin for well over a year now. While it's very effective, there are occasionally false positives (fewer now than there used to be, but they haven't disappeared completely). If it's possible with Mailman, I'd suggest quarantining mail that SpamAssassin labels, rather than deleting it outright.
There's one major difference. If user Fred sends mail to user Barney and Barney's spam-filters delete it, Fred never knows this. If user Fred sends mail to a mailing-list to which Fred is subscribed, Fred sees that his mail never makes it through. He can raise the issue with the list-owner, or look over his mail and think "Hrm, that was written in a poor way, wasn't it?" or whatever. There's user feedback. Jorge's shown that he understands this principle with Dillo. :^) It makes all the difference. If this is a big concern, then it might be worth a monthly mail-out of the list charter with a brief list FAQ, such as some mailing-lists used to have (and USENET certainly did). -- 2001: Blogging invented. Promises to change the way people bore strangers with banal anecdotes about their pets. <http://www.thelemon.net/issues/timeline.php>