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Re: debian-user list info and guidelines: spam

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On 2021-01-25 04:24, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:55:53 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Lu, 25 ian 21, 01:03:07, John Kaufmann wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Is there an intelligent way to manage when spam control efforts
>>> break the system they want to protect? Do the debian lists attempt
>>> to control spam by blocking specific users, domains or ISPs?
> 
> I've never found content-based anti-spam methods to be reliable. For a
> time, I tried spamassassin, but I found I was spending a lot of time
> tweaking it, and a week later would need to do it again. I decided that
> spammers evolve faster than I care to try to deal with.
> 
> I do segregate some emails that cannot possibly be anything other than
> spam but do not reject them, and send myself a daily email listing the
> very few that were rejected that were actually sent to a real user on
> my domains. I do get the occasional incorrect rejection, but no more
> than half a dozen a year, which I can normally put right the next day.

Thanks for that perspective and summary of your practice,
John

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