Very little unfortunately, so I've dropped off of it. I sent my new rules in, but doubt that they will be included. I'm not sure why this is so.

KS

Kickstart: Thanks! I found user_prefs_template, installed your rules,and saved it as user_prefs. Does most of the rule-swapping take place on the email list?

Craniac: Those are the general rules, but you can create a .spamassassin directory and create a file with new rules in a file called user_prefs. You may actually already have this directory and file.

Loading time isn't an issue -- it takes a LOT of text to make a difference there. It's more an issue of convenience in seeing things when paging up and down on Boing Boing... I regularly don't follow links the first time I see something here; come back later and find it to do so; check discussions for new entries (yes, I know I could subscribe); and otherwise revisit recent entries in fairly random order. A single entry multiple screens long makes that more difficult. That's why I have the preference I stated.

I dislike saying anything complaintish about volunteer projects whose results I enjoy. So let me repeat myself: Boing Boing rocks and I'm grateful for your and Cory's and David's work in making this one of the best places on the web. Thank you.

And that's a story I'll stick to regardless of whether you're persuaded to use 'more' links for very long entries.

Were you responding to my post? I don't understand the reference to "more".

Edited by author 06-13-2002 04:45 PM
Well, I like running the whole thing at once, without a "more." That way, you can just read it. But what's the problem? Take too long to load? Or something else?

Edited by author 06-13-2002 04:25 PM
http://www.simsonsays.com

Kickstart 70: my recently installed version of SpamAssassin stores the sorting rules in the /rules directory, a bunch of files that end in .cf

None of those files have the line beginning with "score" that you include. Which .cf contains these rules? Thanks.

rawbody GW_NEW_NIGERIAN /Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation/i
score GW_NEW_NIGERIAN 5.00

That would be this, ChakaTodd:

http://boingboing.net/2002_06_01_archive.html#85165134

and ditto cypherpunks' suggestion. For something of this length, it'd be nice to split the article and use a 'MORE' link.

Edited by author 06-13-2002 04:13 PM
http://www.streettech.com has a link to the original article on one of their frontpage blogs. Simson also has an email list you can subscribe to.

"Why not just use procmail " sayeth Charo.

SpamAssassin uses Procmail to work its magic. It seems to be more nuanced.

It would be nice if the article could be viewed by itself, so that I could pass a link to managers without them being distracted by the other boingboing content, as fine as it is.

Chaka - That *IS* the original Simson article. Original publication right here on boingboing.

Could we get these put in a sub-page somewhere and just an excerpt on the main page? It takes up too much room to have the whole article sitting there.

Is there a link to the original Simson article?

Anyone here know how spamassassin compares to junkfilter(http://http://junkfilter.zer0.org/)? I've been using junkfilter, and while it works very well, i still get approximately 10 spam e-mails daily.

Edited by author 06-13-2002 12:14 PM
Another great way to reduce spam is provided by http://www.spamgourmet.com - they give you the possibility to create new email addresses on the fly wich only accept a certain number of mails and then stop forwarding to your main mail address.