Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
Hi Rich,

No problems. We are many hundreds of miles north and south of the fires here on 
the Monterey Bay. (About at the middle of the state on the coast.). But we are 
seeing some smoke getting blown down here in the last day or so. 

Thanks for the concern! 

Regards,
Eric
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> On Nov 10, 2018, at 6:47 PM, Rick Robinson  wrote:
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> How are you folks during with all the fires ? 
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Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Rick Robinson
How are you folks during with all the fires ? 

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 8:47 PM Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft <
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> Thread now closed (including related SPAM discussion threads.  :-)
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> 73,
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> > On Nov 10, 2018, at 11:26 AM, Dauer, Edward  wrote:
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Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
Thread now closed (including related SPAM discussion threads.  :-)

73,
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> On Nov 10, 2018, at 11:26 AM, Dauer, Edward  wrote:
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> Before the authorities close this useful but somewhat-OT thread, I would 
> share one ...
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Re: [Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Walter Underwood
That did used to happen with brute-force algorithms.

For the past 15 years or more, spam filtering has been an arms race. Spammers 
automiatically open a bunch of email accounts on a free provider, then have 
scripts try different variations until something would get through. Then they 
hammer the service with that spam until it was blocked. Then try again. Spam 
can evolve hour-by-hour to find weaknesses in the algorithms.

Similar stuff happens with spiders for web search engines. I’m glad to not be 
in that business any more.

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> On Nov 10, 2018, at 11:26 AM, Dauer, Edward  wrote:
> 
> Before the authorities close this useful but somewhat-OT thread, I would 
> share one anecdote told to me to be true, though I can't personally vouch for 
> it, about an unnamed university twenty-plus years ago.  The IT department 
> decided to install filters that would block both incoming and outgoing e-mail 
> that contained offensive language.  So they made up a dirty words list, not 
> telling any of the clients what was on it or even that it existed.  It was 
> discovered when the Political Science Department got no responses to its 
> e-blast announcement of a conference titled something like "Contemporary 
> Issues in Capitalism, Socialism, and Communitarianism."   
> 
> The word Socialism contains the word Cialis.  
> 
> Or so the story goes.
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> Ted, KN1CBR
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[Elecraft] Spam filtering

2018-11-10 Thread Dauer, Edward
Before the authorities close this useful but somewhat-OT thread, I would share 
one anecdote told to me to be true, though I can't personally vouch for it, 
about an unnamed university twenty-plus years ago.  The IT department decided 
to install filters that would block both incoming and outgoing e-mail that 
contained offensive language.  So they made up a dirty words list, not telling 
any of the clients what was on it or even that it existed.  It was discovered 
when the Political Science Department got no responses to its e-blast 
announcement of a conference titled something like "Contemporary Issues in 
Capitalism, Socialism, and Communitarianism."   

The word Socialism contains the word Cialis.  

Or so the story goes.

Ted, KN1CBR

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