[Mailman-Users] Newbie - many questions and ideas but mostly how to kill the SPAM

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:05:11 +0100 
Simon Waters <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Questions and Comments.

> 1. Can a regular expression be fatal rather than just requiring
> moderation. I have a number of rules with 100% hit rate - such as
> trapping all messages flagged as coming from open relays. But the mail
> admins refuse to drop such mail at the MTA level alas.

v2.1

> 2. How would I write a regular expression in Mailman Privacy options
> to trap Korean characters in the subject line, use of 8 bit ASCII
> characters, or even all subjects containing Ä (Capital A umlaut) would
> be sufficient.

[^A-Z^0-9^~^!^@^#^\$^%^\^^\*^\(^\)^_^\+^,^\^.^/^\\^:^;^\'^\"]?

> 4. Does anywhere collect and share good anti-spam regular expressions
> ?

There have been some posted to the Mailman lists. As you collect them it
would be nice to add them to the FAQ at:

  http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py 

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