Re: [SAtalk] Re: An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum

2003-11-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 25 Nov 2003, Scott A Crosby wrote: > But to everyone else bitching about how SA and Perl is easy to install > and 'not a problem'. You're wrong. Unlike the other systems reviewed > SA isn't a drop-in system or box. It *does* require more effort to set > up. Stop maligning him for claiming other

Re: [SAtalk] Osirusoft - trustworthy?

2002-09-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-27 20:12:53 -0700]: > > My problem with SPEWS is that it is not an accurate way to tag spam. > > There are too many FPs. > > I have heard a lot of derisive commentary about relays.osirusoft.com > but people still

Re: [SAtalk] Osirusoft - trustworthy?

2002-09-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > The advantage of Osirusoft.com is that you need only one net query to get > results from all those RBLs merged by Osirusoft. Also should it avoid > double scores because a site listed in two lists returns only one result. > > Malte > > P.S.: Those are

RE: [SAtalk] Osirusoft - trustworthy?

2002-09-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
ition from lots of Spamassassin users. As a start, I wonder if there's any general consensus, one way or the other, on this list. Miles Fidelman ** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman

Re: [SAtalk] Osirusoft - trustworthy?

2002-09-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Matt Kettler wrote: > As far as trustworthy goes, I trust osirusoft to pretty much list everyone > that's questionable and all their neighbors. I don't trust it to be low > collateral damage, hence I don't use them as a flat-out blocklist, and I > generally assign them fewer

Re: [SAtalk] Osirusoft - trustworthy?

2002-09-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Darren Coleman wrote: > Has anyone had any experience of dealings with Osirusoft and can > comment/suggest a course of action? Their website doesn't seem to provide > any specific contact information and - and this would be funny if it weren't > tragic - attempting to email

[SAtalk] latest stable version?

2002-09-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I've been running spamassassin 2.20, and been waiting to upgrade to 2.41 until it seems stable. At this point, I've been seeing a lot fewer bug reports, and a variety of references to patches, but... I don't see either a patch directory or a 2.42, and all the development seems to be fo

[SAtalk] Anti-Spam Legislation Opposed By Powerful Penis-Enlargement Lobby(TheOnion) (fwd) - good for a laugh

2002-07-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
--- (C) Copyright 2002, Onion, Inc. --- www.theonion.com/onion3825/anti-spam_legislation.html AMERICA'S FINEST NEWS S

Re: [SAtalk] What version of Perl is required for SpamAssassin?

2002-06-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, tang wrote: > Just installed SpamAssassin on our Sun's Ultra10 running Solaris 7, > but it doesn't work: > > tang@bionmr3:~/bin/SpamAssassin 124>./spamassassin < sample-nonspam.txt > Can't locate Time/HiRes.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib lib This isn't a version problem.

Re: [SAtalk] Fw: [Razor-users] Announce: Vipul's Razor v2

2002-06-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Simon Lyall wrote: Does the latest release of spamassassin support Razor v2 now? ** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President & Newtonville, MA 0

[SAtalk] is there a test for Korean characters?

2002-05-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Is there a specific test for Korean characters? ** Network Technology Corporation PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, PresidentNewtonville, MA 02460-0006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]617-

Re: [SAtalk] what am I doing wrong?

2002-05-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Doug Crompton wrote: > I don't know. I changed mine in the 50_scores file. It obviously works > there. I think I'll try that next. I was just hoping to avoid making changes in the rules files, to keep upgrading simple. Miles ___

[SAtalk] what am I doing wrong?

2002-05-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi, Per a recent suggestion, I put the following in my local .spamassassin/user_prefs file: score LARGE_HEX 5.00 in an attempt to catch some of the various viruses floating around. The thing is, that while a number of messages are getting caught by the LARGE_HEX test, the score is bein

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on a mail relay

2002-04-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Vivek Khera wrote: > Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:54:46 -0400 > From: Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pete O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on a mail relay > > > "PO" == Pete O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

[SAtalk] THANKS [was: simple question, I hope]

2002-04-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ed and Bart, Thanks for your suggestions. By putting them together, and adding one item (see below), I solved my problem. Thanks! Miles > > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >

RE: [SAtalk] simple question, I hope

2002-04-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ed, On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson wrote: > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:58:30 -0400 > From: CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Spam Assassin L

RE: [SAtalk] simple question, I hope

2002-04-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson wrote: > > > > > :0 fw > > > |spamassassin -d > > > > > > :0: > > > $MAIL > > > >

RE: [SAtalk] simple question, I hope

2002-04-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson wrote: > > The two obvious approaches seem to have problems: > > > > |spamassassin -d |mail $MAIL -- spamassassin will simply reprocess the > > message, and, in any case, the original headers won't show up properly > > > > |spamassassin -d >>$MAIL

Re: [SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dan, On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Daniel Liston wrote: > Here is another idea, and requires monitoring, but is easier than > trying to unmunge a majordomo bounce to a spammer; > > /etc/aliases > majordomo: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo",filename > > Filename is actually an archive of all message

Re: [SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Theo, On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > majordomo doesn't actually change anything. the bounce is essentially a new message >with the old > message as the body. so you could do something like this: > > perl -nle 'next if (1../^\s*$/) or /^>From /; print;' < bounce > fresh > > > So.

[SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
essage to razor. So... has anybody already solved this problem - say by writing a script that does this all automagically? Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman ** Network Technology Corporation PO Box 600618 Mi

[SAtalk] problem solved

2002-04-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6 Apr 2002, Nils Vogels wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 00:44, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Maybe somebody can help me with the following: > > > > - I've just installed spamassassin 2.11 on my machine (Sun, Solaris) > > - it works from the command line > > -

[SAtalk] problem getting spamassassin working with procmail

2002-04-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
ed into the ozone Anybody have any suggestions as to what's going on and how to fix it? Thanks much, Miles Fidelman ** Network Technology Corporation PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, PresidentNew