Enabled SpamAssassin for mailing list filtering pre-moderation

Hi all, I have just set up SpamAssassin for Mailman for all ovirt.org mailing lists - I will be checking in regularly to make sure that this change does not cause dropping of legitimate emails. If you send an email to the list and it doesn't get there, please mail me personally at dneary @redhat.com to let me know, and we'll adjust the spam level appropriately. I have trained all the lists with a corpus of ham and spam, so hopefully this will significantly lessen the moderation load. Let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary on *any* ovirt.org lists, please! Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

On 09/02/2013 10:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi all,
I have just set up SpamAssassin for Mailman for all ovirt.org mailing lists - I will be checking in regularly to make sure that this change does not cause dropping of legitimate emails. If you send an email to the list and it doesn't get there, please mail me personally at dneary @redhat.com to let me know, and we'll adjust the spam level appropriately.
I have trained all the lists with a corpus of ham and spam, so hopefully this will significantly lessen the moderation load.
Let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary on *any* ovirt.org lists, please!
Thanks, Dave.
what's the effect of this on unmoderated emails - will it filter them as well?

Hi, This filter is the top of the heap - so it will filter everything, even spam coming from a member. However, I did add a "-3" correction for list mlembers - so list membvers would have to write a very spammy email indeed to get filtered. Cheers, Dave. On 09/02/2013 10:06 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 09/02/2013 10:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi all,
I have just set up SpamAssassin for Mailman for all ovirt.org mailing lists - I will be checking in regularly to make sure that this change does not cause dropping of legitimate emails. If you send an email to the list and it doesn't get there, please mail me personally at dneary @redhat.com to let me know, and we'll adjust the spam level appropriately.
I have trained all the lists with a corpus of ham and spam, so hopefully this will significantly lessen the moderation load.
Let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary on *any* ovirt.org lists, please!
Thanks, Dave.
what's the effect of this on unmoderated emails - will it filter them as well?
-- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

On 09/02/2013 11:08 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi,
This filter is the top of the heap - so it will filter everything, even spam coming from a member.
However, I did add a "-3" correction for list mlembers - so list membvers would have to write a very spammy email indeed to get filtered.
can we forward list members for further moderation (I never saw a spam email from a list member).
Cheers, Dave.
On 09/02/2013 10:06 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 09/02/2013 10:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi all,
I have just set up SpamAssassin for Mailman for all ovirt.org mailing lists - I will be checking in regularly to make sure that this change does not cause dropping of legitimate emails. If you send an email to the list and it doesn't get there, please mail me personally at dneary @redhat.com to let me know, and we'll adjust the spam level appropriately.
I have trained all the lists with a corpus of ham and spam, so hopefully this will significantly lessen the moderation load.
Let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary on *any* ovirt.org lists, please!
Thanks, Dave.
what's the effect of this on unmoderated emails - will it filter them as well?

Hi Itamar, On 09/02/2013 10:09 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
can we forward list members for further moderation (I never saw a spam email from a list member).
I'm not sure I understand the question... you mean you don't want list members to be considered as potential spam? I think it's a good idea for Bayes algorithms to get a bigger corpus of email to evaluate what's spam and not spam, sio I'm happy to have members emails go through it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

On 09/03/2013 11:27 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi Itamar,
On 09/02/2013 10:09 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
can we forward list members for further moderation (I never saw a spam email from a list member).
I'm not sure I understand the question... you mean you don't want list members to be considered as potential spam? I think it's a good idea for Bayes algorithms to get a bigger corpus of email to evaluate what's spam and not spam, sio I'm happy to have members emails go through it.
Cheers, Dave.
i'm fine with teaching it, as long as we get an email from it on any member's "spam" email it detected, which we know 99.999% is false positive. also, THANK you for installing it - first morning in a while i don't need to review 100 spam emails to find the one which isn't. Thanks, Itamar

On 09/02/2013 03:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi all,
I have just set up SpamAssassin for Mailman for all ovirt.org mailing lists - I will be checking in regularly to make sure that this change does not cause dropping of legitimate emails. If you send an email to the list and it doesn't get there, please mail me personally at dneary @redhat.com to let me know, and we'll adjust the spam level appropriately.
I have trained all the lists with a corpus of ham and spam, so hopefully this will significantly lessen the moderation load.
Let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary on *any* ovirt.org lists, please!
Thanks, Dave.
Woot! thanks Dave.
participants (3)
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Dave Neary
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Itamar Heim
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Mike Burns