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Date:	Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:28:36 PST8PDT,4,1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: SCOUG Server: time allocation; spam filtering

In <13747-44618@sneakemail.com>, on 03/27/04
at 12:06 PM, "Bob" said:

>I can look at another one of the mail servers. Let me know which one you
>want me to do.

I recommend you look at Weasel. It seems to still be under current
development.

>> -- 1. Changing @scoug.com email addresses to graphics:

>I thought this had already been done.

It has been.

>> And the incoming spam is using a random name dictionary

>The CommuniGate email server can stop a lot of these kinds of things.

Peter is saying these get stopped by the current SCOUG mail server too.

>> No spam filtering on the SCOUG mail server.

>I agree with this, there are just too many things that can give false
>spam indications. Some things can be done to reduce spam without trying
>to guess if it is a real message or spam.

I agree too. That said, we might want to filter but not delete. The
suspect messages could be marked with an X header such as X-SCOUG-Spam.
That way the users could process the messages as they wish based on the
header.

Regards,

Steven

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