Re: [SAtalk] (semi)automatic Razor reporting options? anyone don e it like thi s before?

2003-11-11 Thread Chip Paswater
If you use Windows and Outlook, try Cloudmark's Spamnet product.  It's
the commercial version of razor, and feeds the same backend database.

I think it's still free to use.  http://www.cloudmark.com

As far as looking up status, there's no official way to do it.  You could
create a unique message, report it as spam, and then see what rating was
assigned to it.  But then again, does it really matter?

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:13:40PM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ah.sadly we have winblows here and outhouse so spam will get modified as
 i forward it.  i do have several unused mailboxes which fill with spam quite
 a bit and i tried to submit a mailbox full which i checked to be all spam to
 razor and it seemed to work, with a few perl errors here and there as it
 found a strange message or something.  
 
 is there anyway to view the status of your account with which you submit
 with?  like i've submitted 300 messages and 5 were new spam and the rest
 we're already there...


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RE: [SAtalk] (semi)automatic Razor reporting options? anyone don e it like thi s before?

2003-11-11 Thread Mathew Hendry
Chip Paswater wrote:

 If you use Windows and Outlook, try Cloudmark's Spamnet product.  It's
 the commercial version of razor, and feeds the same backend database.

 I think it's still free to use.  http://www.cloudmark.com

No it's not free (subscription is $1.99 a month or something) but there is a
free trial. They have a version for Outlook Express in beta now as well.

-- Mat.



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RE: [SAtalk] (semi)automatic Razor reporting options? anyone don e it like thi s before?

2003-11-11 Thread mwestern
Yers, they started to charge for it.  i ran the beta for a long time and was
very happy with it, but i needed to do something with the server, not on
everyone's outlook.

looks like anti-spam software will go the way of the virus with signatures
updates and anti-spam build into anti-virus software?will be some pretty
serious signature files tho.  

err, does razor keep a local copy of the database on the server and update
it every so often or does it go off to the server for every message.   seems
like it would make more sense to set it up like updates and you go off every
day (with a script) and grab the latest definition update thing which would
build on a monthly build or something.  new servers would grab the monthly
build, then update to the daily one...

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don e it like thi s before?


Chip Paswater wrote:

 If you use Windows and Outlook, try Cloudmark's Spamnet product.  It's
 the commercial version of razor, and feeds the same backend database.

 I think it's still free to use.  http://www.cloudmark.com

No it's not free (subscription is $1.99 a month or something) but there is a
free trial. They have a version for Outlook Express in beta now as well.

-- Mat.



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RE: [SAtalk] (semi)automatic Razor reporting options? anyone don e it like thi s before?

2003-11-10 Thread mwestern
Ah.sadly we have winblows here and outhouse so spam will get modified as
i forward it.  i do have several unused mailboxes which fill with spam quite
a bit and i tried to submit a mailbox full which i checked to be all spam to
razor and it seemed to work, with a few perl errors here and there as it
found a strange message or something.  

is there anyway to view the status of your account with which you submit
with?  like i've submitted 300 messages and 5 were new spam and the rest
we're already there...



-Original Message-
From: Chip Paswater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] (semi)automatic Razor reporting options? anyone
done it like thi s before?


 my problem is how would i deal with the FW: on the front of messages etc?
 perhaps i should write a little script that munges the mailbox and removes
 the FW: and the few extra lines in each message and the 's that get
 created.  

As far as razor goes, subject lines don't matter, so don't worry about
appended FW or RE in your subject lines.

However, the body of the message should be untouched.  Don't try to strip
out  or whatever, because it's highly unlikely you'll be able to return
the message to it's original composition.  Instead, try to forward or
bounce the message unedited.  Mutt has this feature.

 also i thought what we should do is create a mailbox that is darn easy to
 guess, subscribe it to many spam lists somehow to get it full of spam and
 then have this automatically reported to razor.  makeing sure that no-one
 uses it or sends any real mail to it?  does this also sound viable?   i
have
 read that razor should only be submitted by humans so i wouldn't like to
 mess up the network by automatic stuff not working, but surely this is
 something that should be considered?

That's called a spamtrap, and razor frowns on your auto-submitting
spamtraps to them (as do other services like Spamcop).  The best way to keep
everyone happy is to human-review everything before you submit it.

I maintain a spamtrap.  It gets about 300 spams per day, and I submit them
in batches after I've taken a look at them to make sure there's nothing
collateral in there, and occasionally something DOES sneak in that is not
spam.  

In fact, Spamcop turned off their quick reporting feature because too
many people were reporting the latest Microsoft virus emails as spam.  I
can only assume this was a direct result of too many people auto
submitting emails that came into their spamtrap.  


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