Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:07:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:51:50AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Spamcop email address. If the number of messages reported by humans > > > as spam via Spamcop exceeds 2%, that IP gets blacklisted for 7 days,

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:51:50AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Spamcop email address. If the number of messages reported by humans > > as spam via Spamcop exceeds 2%, that IP gets blacklisted for 7 days, > > the spam percentage goes back below 2%, or until the ISP notifies SC > > that it's fixe

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-02 Thread Jesus Climent
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:51:50AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:54:15PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > So that would be why they blacklisted master.debian.org a while back? Probably they received some spam through the debian mailing lists. They reported the spam to some

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:54:15PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Spamcop, for example, works in the exact opposite manner you describe. > It checks against what @spamcop.net email addresses are recieving and > what's reported by all users, regaurdless of wheter or not they have a > Spamcop email add

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 00:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:02:51AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > These usually have some promotion of features on the originating website > > - enough to trigger spam filtering. Unfortunately, my attempts to rescue > > these with whitelisted addr

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:02:51AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > These usually have some promotion of features on the originating website > - enough to trigger spam filtering. Unfortunately, my attempts to rescue > these with whitelisted addresses has proven useless as I'd said, because > by my exp

Re: SPAM fiiltering - spam breakdown

2002-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi david On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, David Z Maze wrote: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > if i was gonna tagg an email ( spam ) for later processing ... > > i might as well have spent the 1 second to check it the first > > time and hit the "D" key ... instead of looking at that email twice

Re: SPAM filtering (was Re: SPAM fiiltering)

2002-11-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 12:19, Bob George wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > [...] > > SpamAssassin 2.43-1 - tried upgrading it tied to unstable and it says > > that I'm at the newest version. Basically, it was clobbering anything in > > html on a commercial mailing list, such as personalised horos

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-01 Thread Bob George
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: [...] SpamAssassin 2.43-1 - tried upgrading it tied to unstable and it says that I'm at the newest version. Basically, it was clobbering anything in html on a commercial mailing list, such as personalised horoscopes. These usually have some promotion of features on the origin

Re: SPAM fiiltering - spam breakdown

2002-11-01 Thread David Z Maze
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if i was gonna tagg an email ( spam ) for later processing ... > i might as well have spent the 1 second to check it the first > time and hit the "D" key ... instead of looking at that email twice Does your MUA have some concept of folders? What I do is h

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 08:47, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just switched off SpamAssassin here because what had been an equal > > number of false positives and false negatives has instead proven to be > > nearly every spam not already filtered by my own E

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-01 Thread Alan Shutko
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just switched off SpamAssassin here because what had been an equal > number of false positives and false negatives has instead proven to be > nearly every spam not already filtered by my own Evolution filters and > local blacklisting of a swath of wo

Re: SPAM fiiltering - spam breakdown

2002-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jesus On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Jesus Climent wrote: > > From my experience i would say: Do not use RBLs to reject mail, but to > tag it. a good reason against rbl's http://www.ifn.net/rblstory.htm and i agree... and i also disagree if i was gonna tagg an email ( spam ) for later

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-11-01 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:37:45PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi paul > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I also bounce mail based on the following DNSBL zones with great success. > > > > relays.ordb.org (tested open relays) > > orbs.dorkslayers.com (Dorkslayer's RBL) > > relays

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi paul On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > I also bounce mail based on the following DNSBL zones with great success. > > relays.ordb.org (tested open relays) > orbs.dorkslayers.com (Dorkslayer's RBL) > relays.visi.com (More tested open relays) > postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org (Any site tha

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:08:07PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering > if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. Personally, I use spamassassin, and I have it set up using dman's solution as a filter t

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:08, Scott Henson wrote: > I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering > if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. > I am using Evolution as my mail client, and postfix/woody on my mail > server. I looked on line for

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread bob
Scott Henson wrote: I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. It's low tech, but I've set about 2 dozen conditions in a Mozilla message filter and trap 99% of spam in my Trash folder for ready d

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Oyvind A. Holm
On 2002-10-31 18:21-0800 Alvin Oga wrote: > On 31 Oct 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > > I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was > > wondering if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the > > best one to use. > > see the postfix section w/ spamassassin > http://www.L

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya scoot see the postfix section w/ spamassassin http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/antispam.gwif.html c ya alvin - but i say run your own mta... to do all your own filtering before it even hits your mailbox On 31 Oct 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > I am looking to start using a spam filt

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Scott, On Oct 31, Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | new abyssian filter technique : Bayesian? -Jason -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason GPG key - 0EFB1DFE You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.

SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Scott Henson
I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. I am using Evolution as my mail client, and postfix/woody on my mail server. I looked on line for some documentation on how to use spamassassin on my wood