RE: [Mimedefang] Subject block - good success - Anyone else tryin g it?

2005-07-18 Thread Cormack, Ken
From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I was curious to know if anyone else has been playing around with > > subject-line blocking, as discussed in the thread a week or so ago. > I haven't, but am interested. I'm just curious about what kind of false > positive rate might be experience

Re: [Mimedefang] Subject block - good success - Anyone else tryin g it?

2005-07-18 Thread David F. Skoll
Cormack, Ken wrote: > My users report any spam that slips through, to an Exchange public folder > called "spam". I then run a series of VB scripts against any such reported > spam, to extract relay Ips, subject lines, and other such things that I can > add to my various rules or databases. It se

RE: [Mimedefang] Subject block - good success - Anyone else tryin g it?

2005-07-18 Thread Cormack, Ken
From: David F. Skoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It seems to me it would be far more productive and less labour-intensive > to simply feed those messages into a Bayesian analyzer. That may be the case. However, the VB scripts have done a pretty good job so far, are well known and understood by

Re: [Mimedefang] Subject block - good success - Anyone else tryin g it?

2005-07-18 Thread David F. Skoll
Cormack, Ken wrote: > Would a Bayes analyzer deal with a spammer's efforts to "personalize" or > vary a subject line, with things such as: > "Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED], claim your dream vacation - 07/15/05" > "Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED], claim your dream vacation - #GGFS85F" > ...any more effectively tha