[H-GEN] Experiences with SpamAssassin

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:

> Got the source tarball and followed the instructions, which are
> something like untar, perl Makefile.PL, make, sudo make install.

> Of course, that all works so much better when the usual
> "./configure --my-weird-options && make && sudo make install"
> mantra works.

Ah, righto.

Yes, the standard Perl Way of installing a module isn't the easiest
thing to nut out, especially if you'd rather be getting on with doing
other things.

> | Is that 84 megabytes of spam?
> No, it's 84 thousand messages (of which nearly 8,000 were spam).

Oh!  Phew!

> That's one way of putting it.  And note that those counts are
> only the stuff that got delivered -- tons of it gets blocked
> because of blacklists, etc., before the scum even get a chance
> to talk to my smtp daemon.

I wonder if that could mean the blacklists are becoming less effective
over time?
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