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Mateusz Łoskot <mateusz@loskot.net> wrote:
> For a mailing list mirror, is SpamAssassing necessary?
> 
> My understanding is taht a mirror just pulls posts that have already
> reached the mailing list.

It depends on how good the mailing list is at filtering spam.
vger misses some spam which my local SA instance catches.
It doesn't seem necessary with GNU lists.