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Dear Swiss-list subscribers,

lately the amount of spam and virus messages sent to the different swiss-list
addresses has become larger than the number of real messages. Therefore,
I've installed a spam tester called spam-assassin (http://spamassassin.org/)
that will check every message sent to one of the lists and refuse messages
that fail the spam test. Refused messages will include a short explanation
of the problem and what to do get the message posted anyway (sometimes
spam-assassin makes errors).

I've used spam-assassin to filter my own mails and only got one or two false
positives during the last 6 month, so chances are rather small that your email
bounces because of this. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Greetings,

Claudio Fleiner

P.S.: here a typical result by spam-assassin:

SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ----------------------
SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered
SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future.
SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.
SPAM:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (18.5 hits, 5 required)
SPAM: MIME_ODD_CASE (4.3 points) MiME-Version header (oddly capitalized)
SPAM: SUBJ_HAS_SPACES (4.0 points) Subject contains lots of white space
SPAM: DATE_YEAR_ZERO_FIRST (1.1 points) Invalid Date: year begins with zero
SPAM: NO_REAL_NAME (0.5 points) From: does not include a real name
SPAM: CLICK_BELOW (1.5 points) BODY: Asks you to click below
SPAM: SUPERLONG_LINE (0.4 points) BODY: Contains a line >=199 characters long
SPAM: MIME_MISSING_BOUNDARY (3.9 points) RAW: MIME section missing boundary
SPAM: BASE64_ENC_TEXT (2.1 points) Message text disguised using base-64 encoding
SPAM: DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 (0.7 points) Date: is 3 to 6 hours before Received: date
SPAM:
SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results ---------------------

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