Re: Spam filter?

Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
So,

Can mailing lists have its mail filtered? I get more spam via mailing
lists than I do in my own inbox. I am not just singling this mailing
list. I see it a lot now.

If you had searched the list you would have found that this topic has been discussed from time to time. The fact of the matter is that a lot of effort does go into spam filtering this list, and the residual spam that you see actually represents a very low false negative rate. You wouldn't believe how much spam gets sent to the active mailing lists and newsgroups.

If your own spam filtering is so good then maybe you should just subscribe to python-list instead of using a newsgroup, then your email filters will be applied to incoming articles from the list too.

Oh, I see you *are* using python-list. So how come your filters don't work for the spam that gets posted?

regards
Steve
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