FYI: tighter spam filters

I've tighted up the spam filters to deal with the spam-in-an-image spams; we get about 2 dozen per day, and we've only had one false positive in five months since I started moderating them. Here is the new "instant-death" filter: A message which is of MIME type "multipart/alternative" or "multipart/related", containing both a "text/html" type part and an "image/*" type part. While I suspect it's not quite MIME-kosher, you can use a "multipart/mixed" body with "text/html" and "image/*" if you really need to. You'll still probably be delayed by one of the anti-HTML filters, but the message won't be discarded. Avoiding any HTML in your posts is still the best policy. Here is a somewhat laxer criterion which will result in a post being held: A message which is of MIME type "multipart/alternative" or "multipart/related", containing an "image/*" type part. For more information about XEmacs mailing list policies, please see http://www.xemacs.org/Lists (or one of the mirrors). Yes, this content really ought to be moved to lists.xemacs.org (with an HTTP redirect from the URL above), but it's currently non-trivial because we share the Mailman installation with other virtual hosts. I'm working on it, but advice from experienced Apache and Mailman admins would be gratefully accepted. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta