| spamassassin -p ~/.spamassassin-tag/user_prefs

:0Efw: spamassassin.lock
| spamassassin

   And the highlights from ~/.spamassassin-tag/user_prefs:

required_hits           4

   (this is 5 by default)

score HTML_MESSAGE 3.0
score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 3.0
score RCVD_IN_SORBS 1.0
score BIZ_TLD 2.5

   (arbitrarily cranking up the score for rules that seem to match the incoming
   spam)

   This setup is working well for me so far (no false positives yet, and only a
   single junk mail getting through).

   The answer gang mailing list is always a good read, and I was glad to find
   you guys hanging out at linuxgazette.net after being quite surprised at the
   new structure of the .com site.

   'til later TAGsters

   --andrew

     We are looking into ways of solving it more directly. There'll hopefully
     be no need for this elaborateness when ( :) ) we do. People are rather
     busy this month, howwever. -- Thomas

     The same problem exists for any decently worldwide mailing list, maybe the
     -users list from your favorite distribution or major app, so it's still a
     great Tip! Just beware setting your filtering a little too high, as Jimmy
     discovers... -- Heather

     [Jimmy O'Regan] Heh. I only noticed a couple of days ago that my ISP is
     running SpamAssassin on my mail before it gets to me. I was wondering why
     everyone  was  complaining  about  the level of spam on the list :)
     Fortunately my spam is available for a week through their webmail setup,
     otherwise I'd never have got the contract a client sent me. Now to find a
     mail provider that doesn't take such liberties with my mail...
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More on Linux for low end systems

   John Murray ([69]pursang from netwit.net.au)

   Just thought I'd point out a piece I wrote a some time ago on getting good
   performance out of older hardware:
   [70]http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/lofat.html

   John

   ps. Nice bike Ben! Hope you have as much fun on it as I do on my old GSXR750
   :)

     And Ben's going to be getting a first person taste of playing with low-end
     systems  soon.  Since  his  laptop  has been been in and out of the
     silicon-lifeforms   hospital,   I'll   be  sending  him  my  eldest
     still-operational laptop for his ongoing use as a proper spare. Thanks,
     John! -- Heather
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Is your sync Hot or Not?

   Paul Sephton ([71]paul from inet.co.za)

   Dear LinuxGazette

   I am the lucky owner of a Palm m515 handheld. One of my frustrations in the
   past has been that under Linux, I need to establish a PPP connection to
   synchronise my palm with AvantGo web pages, whilst my preference is to use
   the  normal  HotSync  button  to  synchronise  the rest of the palm. A
   frustration, since I wanted the PPP connecttion to establish automatically
   without my having to do anything, but this conflicts with JPilot Hotsync.

   I thought to share the following little bash script with you, which detects
   in which mode the Palm is attempting to communicate, and establishes a PPP
   link if that is what the Palm is attempting to do. Otherwise it waits until
   the Hotsync operation is over and repeats.

   I  hope that someone finds this useful. By the way, if Palm owners are
   experiencing trouble with USB drivers in the later (2.6.7+) kernels, I
   suggest they try 2.6.5. The USB support in that version is excellent.

   Paul

               See attached [72]paul.palm_smartlink.bash.txt

   That's all, folks
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