Re: Rejecting SPAM posts

Carl P. Corliss wrote:
> Fournier Daniel wrote:
> 
>> I'm new to the Xaraya project and so to its news.
>>
>> Unfortunatly, it's spoiled by many SPAM posts as other news I'm 
>> accustumed to read (i.e. Mozilla dev).
>>
>> Is there anythink that can be done to prevent this?
>>
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> 
> I appreciate your concern. Fortunately, it is something that is a known 
> problem - one that I have on my list of things to 'fix.' Try to keep in 
> mind, spam trapping is a rather full-time job itself. The more 'fixes' 
> you come up with, the more workarounds seem to appear. Anyway, suffice 
> to say, our setup is already rejecting 900+/day. While there are more 
> that are getting through lately, it's not something I'm going to focus 
> on when we're in the middle of planning out the addition of a new 
> (dedicated) mail server.  It is however something I am focusing on while 
> mapping out the new server. Once we roll out the new server, we might 
> see a slight rise in spam until the new setup is able to 'learn' what is 
> spam vs. ham. Expect to hear about this more in the coming month.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Carl P. Corliss
> System Administrator / Developer
> http://www.xaraya.com/


Thanks for the answer. I stay tuned.

Daniel