On 12 Jun 2003 at 21:36, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
> I am sorry to go back to this subject...
>
> I just received a piece of SPAM (the usual African person with lots of money
> etc), and amazingly it seems to have come through the Finale list, though it
> is disguised. But it did have the [Finale] subeject and the sender was,
> apparently, the list administrator. Now this is new. I include the headers
> below. If anyone knows how to stop things like this I'd be very glad...
Did everyone on the list receive this? I've not been reading closely
the last day or so (too busy), and didn't see it go through my inbox.
What it looks like is that SHSU is using Spam Assassin to scan mail.
And that it doesn't work, as it passed this message as not being
spam:
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean
X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.7,
required 9, NO_REAL_NAME, US_DOLLARS_3, FROM_AND_TO_SAME),
not spam, SpamAssassin (score=1.5, required 9,
NO_REAL_NAME, US_DOLLARS_3, FROM_AND_TO_SAME,
MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3, AWL)
The score was .7, whereas Johnannes's message was scored -1.5.
Examining the scores on other posts that came into my mailbox in the
same batch as Johannes's post about spam, I see that most legit
messages score 0 or below, but one of Robert Patterson's scores above
0 because the lines are not word-wrapped (as required by the relevant
RFC's describing the properly-formed email message). On the other
hand, a message of Jim Williams's also scores above 0, but there's no
indication of why in the header, and I don't see in the message to
suggest anything spam-like about it.
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