RE: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam.

2004-01-21 Thread Pierre Thomson
It's not strictly a spam measurement, but www.senderbase.org has excellent real-time lists of outbound mail volume by ISP and IP address. Pierre -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:08 AM To: 'Fred'; AltGrendel;

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam.

2004-01-21 Thread Pierre Thomson
-Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:08 AM To: 'Fred'; AltGrendel; Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam. -Original Message- From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] Re: Filter rule f. invalid HTML tags?

2004-01-17 Thread Pierre Thomson
a rule set that looks for multiple instances of this pattern. You can make it stricter by removing the first ? in the regexp; then only closing HTML tags will be matched. As always, YMMV; test new rules before using in production. Does anyone have a better test for this? Pierre Thomson BIC

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Filter rule f. invalid HTML tags?

2004-01-17 Thread Pierre Thomson
does an overall /i modifier affect inverse matches anyhow? Will your version match HAIRSPRAY and not match BLOCKQUOTE ? Pierre -Original Message- From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 9:02 PM To: Pierre Thomson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

[SAtalk] disembodied emails

2004-01-15 Thread Pierre Thomson
-communications. They slip right past SA with only a BAYES_99 penalty, not enough to stop them. I could add a SUBJECT_MISSING test but it can't have a high score; any other bright ideas? Pierre Thomson BIC Received: from dslam145-16-59-81.dyndsl.zonnet.nl (dslam145-16-59-81.dyndsl.zonnet.nl

[SAtalk] queue weirdness with MailScanner, SA and DCC

2004-01-14 Thread Pierre Thomson
_have_ checked the archive, and found one similar complaint last year with no resolution... Pierre Thomson BIC --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering

RE: [SAtalk] queue weirdness with MailScanner, SA and DCC - fixed

2004-01-14 Thread Pierre Thomson
... Pierre Thomson BIC -Original Message- From: Pierre Thomson Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:30 AM To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: [SAtalk] queue weirdness with MailScanner, SA and DCC I am running MailScanner with SA 2.50 under RedHat 7.3. So far I had not been running any

[SAtalk] a goof-proof (?) test for evil mailers

2004-01-14 Thread Pierre Thomson
, it was neat to see my crude WORDWORD test taken to pieces. Someone streamlined the regexp, several more tweaked it, it got a new name and a second-level test, and now we have another weapon against Bayes poison. Keep up the good work!] Pierre Thomson BIC # a sample spam header fragment as seen by SA

RE: [SAtalk] SA Performance .......

2004-01-13 Thread Pierre Thomson
eliminates 2000 messages a day with minimal overhead. Another 3000 are quarantined by SA. We could probably triple the traffic before performance becomes an issue. CPU usage typically runs at 20% or less. Pierre Thomson -Original Message- At 10:56 AM 1/13/2004, you wrote: On Mon, Jan 12

RE: [SAtalk] detecting large collections of random words

2004-01-08 Thread Pierre Thomson
, prepositions)??? Might be worth a try. Pierre Thomson -Original Message- From: Chris Petersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] detecting large collections of random words I've noticed that a lot of spams recently

RE: [SAtalk] detecting large collections of random words

2004-01-08 Thread Pierre Thomson
BTW, I'm already seeing some random-word spam with random punctuation thrown in as well... Pierre Thomson -Original Message- From: Chris Petersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] detecting large collections