On Wednesday 09 January 2008 21:23, Chris Howie wrote: > Wow dude... just wow. Somebody is wound tight today. > > The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers > with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll > have more test data than you know what to do with. > > I was trying to offer a tip while bringing a certain lightness to the > topic. Apparently that did not work, but holy crap man... did you think I > was making fun of you or something?
I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up bogofilter to deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to a known mailing list that wasn't too bothered about spam on their list would have been usefull though, as the Debian guys have resolved the spam flood problem. I don't believe I am wound up. Some time back we had an influx of spam on the list, and I thought I'd fixed it within bogofilter. The spam mails to the list were stopped by the Debian guys, so it was difficult to know if what I had done had fixed it or not. The latest flood of spam from the list showed that I hadn't fixed it, as it was all turning up in my Debian mailbox. Some folks were indicating that they used bogofilter, which is why I posted this question. Also please don't top post. Reading an answer before a question is not easy. Nigel. > > On Jan 9, 2008 3:03 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:58, Chris Howie wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using > > > > it > > > > > > as an > > > > opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to > > > > filter > > > > > > out > > > > the mailing list spam. > > > > > > Give your address to one of those "refer 10 friends and get a free > > > xbox" sites. I gave them a disposable email address *once* and that > > > address > > > > has > > > > > eaten over 13,000 messages since 2005-09-28. (For those of you who are > > > > not > > > > > math geeks, that's ~16 messages per day.) A different disposable > > > > address > > > > > given to a similar site has eaten over 3,200 messages since the same > > > > date, > > > > > which is ~4 per day. > > > > If you can't help with the problem I have, why reply with some sort of > > pisch > > take. > > > > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that > > occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works > > fine with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to deal > > with mailing list spam. > > > > I do not think that spam is funny, and something to laugh at. I check my > > wastebin each day after downloading the mail, just to see that no ham has > > been put there by bogofilter. Most of it has do with getting a bigger > > male member, expressed in a variety of ways, some of which are extremely > > crude, and quite obscene. Often I just empty the trash without checking > > it, as the > > spam that's there is to say the least "sick". > > > > Perhaps I should just keep this problem on the bogofilter list if the > > best that can come from the Debian list is what you have posted. > > > > I use Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, along with Fedora installs, and other > > distro's. > > Apart from FC2 that I'm emailing from I find the Debian ones, and > > Archlinux > > the most stable. I'm upgrading Sarge at the moment, and am surprised that > > I'm > > not only getting security updates, but also updated packages, so that's a > > darned site better than Fedora are doing. > > > > Rant over. > > > > Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
