31 Jan
2003
31 Jan
'03
3:55 p.m.
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:13, Michael Valentiner wrote:
The issue is SPAM deliver by the mba list server.
No offense intended to Russell who has generously and graciously provide this service to
us for years, but the current list server software frankly sucks. List members have been
dropped (e.g., me, others confirm they too),
Actually the list software (ecartis) is
much better than the old one.
It keeps track of no deliverable address and will either put
them into vacation status or drop them if the address is no
longer valid.
If you were dropped for the list is was probably a problem on your end.
As far as SA goes I looked through the logs and yes due to a dir
permission problem it was not filtering messages. This has been
corrected.
As far as the lost message I'm not sure what happened there but I'll
look at the log.
NOTE one side affect of spam filters is they sometimes get it wrong and
incorrectly tag something as spam. Since those messages are not sent to
the list (for obvious reasons) that might be a reason for a non
delivered message.
Since thebarn.com is what I use to manage all my mail I spend quite a
bit of time making sure it does it's job... this includes all of the
mailing list currently hosted there.
I would be interesting in hearing what you think should be done to make
it "suck" less.
messages go undelivered (e.g., the mn brewfest
recipes), and were vulnerable to attack by spammers. Rather than burden Russell, is it
time for a new home?
At 2:47 PM -0600 1/31/03, Rick Larson wrote:
Roger writes:
I've harped on this issue before, but we
really are getting a lot of
SPAM on this list now. I know that there has been a lot of effort to add
SpamAssasin, but from the results in my mailbox, I must say that has
I use spamassassin too and don't recall seeing anything cr*p from the
list. In fact, I rarely see spam in my mailbox.
If you use unix/procmail I can show you how I have spamassassin configured.
Also, I know of a spam scrubber for POP3 mail if that is your bag.
rick