[sword-devel] Support Mailing List

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> I'm there, too -- currently mostly answering the Zaurus-related
> questions, since I don't use Windows at the moment.

C,
	I got my 5000D up and running again.  I needed another PCMCIA WLAN 
card for friends that come over and play games, so I figured I'd just pick 
up a cheap ambicom CF WLAN card and use one of my PCMCIA/CF adapters for 
the laptops.  I was surprised how well it works on the Z.  Updating and 
installing apps is so much cooler just walking around the house and being 
online with highspeed on the handheld.  I tried installing from our 
current zaurus feed and had some troubles.  The software installed and ran 
just fine, but the books can't even download.  Not sure what the problem 
is.  It just says that it can't find the books.  I'll try your feed and 
let you know how it goes.

	-Troy.


> 
> >Troy is there anything that can be done about the spam that is sent to
> >sword-bugs and that is automatically forwarded to the support list?
> 
> I've had good success using SpamAssassin. A standard setup on the
> crosswire server could catch a lot of them already. For better
> success, you need to have a spamfilter of your own, using e.g.
> bayesian techniques (enable SpamAssassin's bayesian filter, use
> PopFile etc.). However, that is a two-edged sword: Some of the support
> e-mails "look" very much like a certain kind of spam -- mostly those
> that lack salutation etc. and consist of two or three sentences only
> ("Help! I downloaded Sword, but it doesn't work! What should I do?").
> 
> So Troy won't be able to set up something that catches _all_ of the
> spam -- but as I said, the standard SpamAssassin (in my experience)
> catches a lot of it (at least 50%) with no false positives.
> 
> Greetings,
>    Christian
> 
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