Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 02:08:28 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jason+freebsd@kanda.com Subject: Re: hub.freebsd.org spam policy Message-ID: <20020405100828067.AAA385@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20020405114405.B82078-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> References: <20020405093325048.AAA364@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On 5 Apr 2002, at 11:49, jason+freebsd@kanda.com boldly uttered: > <SNIP> > > > Obviously if a particular filter is not triggering much, and if it's > > catching a lot of non-spam messages, that filter should be on the top > > of the list to dump. Therefore obviously I'm interested in the > > statistics of the one that bit me - ie the @localhost one. Then > > logically you'd want to do an analysis to ascertain what percentage > > of the spam messages blocked by that filter would be caught by > > another filter. > > What is this localhost thing, I've scanned through this discussion but > couldn't find a complete description of the problem > > From what I can work out your saying that Message-ID's ending in localhost > are rejected. > > But a quick grep of my freebsd-questions archive (approx 4 months): > > grep -i -c 'message-id.*localhost>$' freebsd > 93 (matches) > > grep -i -c 'message-id.*localdomain>$' freebsd > 112 (matches) > > Has this been fixed? Or it is it a different problem? > > Jason That's interesting. The only thing I changed to circumvent the filtering was something which changed the format of the Message-ID string from: Message-ID: <ABCDEFGH.12345.ABCDEFG@localhost> to Message-ID: <1234567890.ABCDEF@[mta hostname]@[originating hostname]> I have no idea how long hub.freebsd.org has filtered on that string. Noone has been forthcoming with details and I haven't been posting to the lists consistently enough to be a good judge. Certainly your statistics would imply a significant amount of messages would be blocked by that measure. What was the date of the latest match? One other thing: will that dot after "message-id" only find text which has a dot in that position? Because that isn't what the Message-ID header looks like. (see above) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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