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 More options Jul 28 2010, 11:16 pm
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From: »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:16:12 -0500
Local: Wed, Jul 28 2010 11:16 pm
Subject: Re: Dealing with the spam in discussion groups
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:07:14 -0400

Dave Miller <justd...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> In article <20100715004529.3516f...@bellgrove.remarqs.net>, »Q«
> <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote:
> > I assume that spamassassin could be configured to let everything
> > posted via NNTP and ML through, only taking a hard look at the stuff
> > that comes from Google, since that's the source of all the spam.

> You know, I think we could actually do that, that's not a bad idea.  I
> know the anti-spam stuff in Mailman (the built-in stuff, not what it
> shells out to SpamAssassin for) can be configured to hold messages
> based on headers, so if we can figure out a header pattern that's
> always present in stuff from we could set it to automatically hold for
> moderation anything originating from Google Groups, and then leave it
> otherwise open.

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in ".googlegroups.com>"

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