On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 the voices made LuKreme write:
L Actually,never having used exitcode I really had no idea even what he
L was trying to do.
We... the blind leading the blind... *grabs a bowl of popcorn*
When does the next show start?
Sowwy... I'm not really a mean person... ;-)
--
For the past cpl of weeks my personal e-mailaccounts' daily been getting 150-
200% of the number of UBE I used to get on a very bad day about 3-4 months ago;
and although I'm pretty sure part of that is me pissing people off with that
speciel kind of charm that's part of my lovely personality, I
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 the voices made [EMAIL PROTECTED] write:
Young whipper-snappers. When I started coding we had to enter code through
front panel switches, and read our output on the console lights - and we
had to replace at least three vacuum tubes per run. On the newest
machines, we
If there is a bondedsender on this list, please send me an e-mail...
I'm testing a rewritten client, and although everything seems to be ok it'd be
nice to get it verified in a non-test environment. =)
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 the voices made Susan Civil-Brown write:
SC I never downloaded SpamAssassin, so I don't know what it's doing on my
SC computer. I certainly don't need it as I have a good spam program, and
SC SpamAssassin tends to screw up messages that have to do with putting things
SC on my
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 the voices made LuKreme write:
L have they done se and secs and sekz already?
Number of hits in the db, and spampoints (0-1):
sekz 1 0.000415
secs 117 0.092999
seks 21 0.511654
Sekz
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 the voices made Michael Moncur write:
MM Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
MM
MM seks is now getting 0.807152 on a 1 = spam and 0 = ham-scale here, so
MM before your e-mail starting messing it up it was a perfect
MM spam-sign for my
MM bayesian filter; bad you. ;-)
MM
MM If you're
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 the voices made Mike Loiterman write:
ML I keep getting these alert messages that Norton Anitvirus has detected and
ML qiarantined various viruses. Has anyone else seen these, if so, whats the
ML best way of blocking them? There doesn't seem to be any common them other
ML
BA On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:24:51 - Kevin Anthoney
BA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BA Apologies for top posting, BTW. I'm at work, hence $£@@@#!! Outlook.
URL: http://www.flash.to/oe-quotefix/
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 the voices made Jess Anderson write:
JA Tony Earnshaw:
JA Kelly Annette Jameson:
JA
JA Does anyone know how to setup Spam Assassin to automatically count all
JA messages over a certain size as spam so they can be bounced back?
JA
JA Isn't this something your MTA should
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 the voices made Jeremy Turner write:
JT On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:42, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
JT I don't think I'll be using Spamassassin any longer. I can't imagine ANY
JT spam filter program not catching that email.
JT
JT From what I've read on this list and on
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 the voices made Tony Earnshaw write:
TE If there had been a you-must-expect-spam-from-our-posters warning on
TE this list, I would have expected it as something natural. As it was, it
TE took me by surprise. In future it won't :-)
This is a list about a product that battles
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 the voices made Matt Kettler write:
MK (hmm, I see this tempting Tony and several others to send me a bunch of
MK non-spam emails in a language I don't speak... hmm)
Vad får dig att tro det? ;-)
Honestly, I don't have much non-english e-mails that either aren't personal or
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 the voices made Martin Schroeder write:
MS [Please limit your line length to =70 chars/line]
MS
MS On 2003-01-15 22:42:07 -, Stephane wrote:
MS exists today disappears ? With opensource you cannot have a
MS contractual engagement to provide support or updates, nor can
MS
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 the voices made Nick Marino write:
NM From: Tony L. Svanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NM It could be the server... I've had some problem with servers doing
NM base64-decoding, problems which could maybe result in problems like yours.
NM I dont think so as its only doing
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 the voices made Nick Marino write:
NM It is only doing it to some HTML messages other come out fine.
and I told you that with this problem with the server that I mentioned it
would only do this to _some_ HTML-messages! Some, not all, only some.
Did you bother to check if
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 the voices made Nick Marino write:
NM I asked for help not your opinion on my posting methods.
URL: http://jump.to/oe-quotefix
# Description
#
# OE-QuoteFix will extend the functionality of MS Outlook Express in numerous
# ways! Its main purpose is to modify message
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 the voices made Nick Marino write:
NM So for that I appologize. But when someone is learning and trying to
NM understand new things please don't be so rude when you respond to them you
NM are more than likely to get a rude response back.
Just take a look at what you've
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 the voices made Nick Marino write:
NM I have been having problems with SA stripping CRLF and just putting in LF in
NM some not all email going through my server.
NM
NM It seems to only do it to mail that is in HTML format but it doesn't do it
NM to all HTML emails.
It could
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 the voices made Jason Levine write:
JL Where else are the lists archived online? I've always just read the list
JL on the SourceForge archives, which truly don't have any messages to any of
JL the SA lists since 1/7/03 in the morning; I just signed up for sa-talk
JL today so
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 the voices made Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder write:
ADvB They probably signed any number of NDAs during the negotiation, so
ADvB warning the community before the deal was complete was obviously not
ADvB possible. A short explanation to the list at the time when the deal
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 the voices made Andrew M. Hoying write:
AMH The spamlist (http://basic.wirehub.nl/spamlist-extended.txt, 3,5 MB)
AMH is updated every hour. If you like, you can just use the domain names
AMH by grepping JUNK$ from http://basic.wirehub.nl/spamlist.txt.
I did a quick check
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 the voices made Vivek Khera write:
VK JM == Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
VK
VK Well written, good content, and industry specific. Also simply having a real
VK email address to reply back is good.
VK
VK JM Actually -- that's a very good point -- read the replies,
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 the voices made Jason Levine write:
JL I'm just wondering if the NAI acquisition of Deersoft killed the mailing
JL lists; there hasn't been a post to any of the lists mirrored on
JL SourceForge since 9:34 AM on 1/7/2003.
Nope, it's business as usual nowadays. =)
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 the voices made Malte S. Stretz write:
MSS On Tuesday 07 January 2003 20:16 CET Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
MSS [...]
MSS What NetAss can do, via their employees running this project, is to
MSS change the license somewhat... which won't hurt anyone today, next week
MSS or even
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 the voices made Copeland, Mary R write:
CMR But I still have my question about how the addresses I've added to my
CMR blacklist can contribute to updating the spam filters database.
They can't; SA doesn't focus on blacklisted addresses, instead it works by
looking at
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 the voices made Theo Van Dinter write:
TVD On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:23:44PM +0100, Malte S. Stretz wrote:
TVD continues. Nobody can buy an open source project and make it closed source
TVD without _all_ it's contributors agreeing on a license change. I for my own
TVD
(Somewhat stolen from a posting by [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the procmail-list)
URL: http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/viruses/indepth/junkmail.xml
a header like that:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=TFICLMGJ
could be altered to that:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 the voices made Justin Mason write:
JM (Open proxies are easy to test for automatically upon mail receipt,
JM you see. Might even make a good SpamAssassin test some day, as long
JM as we could rig up some kind of online test-result collator so each
JM site only gets tested
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 the voices made Tony Hoyle write:
TH I'm more worried about what happens when a virus starts using this - how
TH many mailers
TH are able to block executable attachments when the mime data is munged this
TH badly?
What really worries me is what happens when people start
These HTML-comment in spam sign-thingies are spreading... =(
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: ±èÈ£Áø[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 03:38:25 +0900
Content-Type: text/html; charset=euc-kr
Subject:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 the voices made Tobias von Koch write:
TvK http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNewsstoryID=1997874
It makes sense; it's a positive thing for both NetAss and Deersoft... the
community OTOH... who knows; most likely a lot of PR resulting in how can I
use
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 the voices made Ray Dzek write:
RD Umm...Since this thread started on another list, could somebody please
RD explain, in english, the significance of the munged header?
Just reread the first one to this list, it was by me and it included the URL
to the story.
The
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 the voices made Jerry Rasmussen write:
JR How do you configure SpamAssassin to return spam to the sender?
Impossible, both the returning and the configuring SA to do it part.
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 the voices made Justin Mason write:
JM well, looks like someone's updated their scanner already ;)
Too bad they could code quicker than they could think. =/
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 the voices made Mike Loiterman write:
ML On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 1:54 PM Tony L. Svanstrom
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ML 0
ML * ^X-Rot-Version:
ML{
MLEXITCODE=77
ML:0
ML/dev/null
ML}
ML Actually, one quick addendum
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 the voices made Daniel Quinlan write:
DQ Tony L. Svanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DQ
DQ Has there been any confirmed cases of spammers using
DQ In-Reply-To/References-headers (to avoid spamfilters)?
DQ
DQ Ie, using those headers to make their spam look like
DQ a reply
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 the voices made Mike Loiterman write:
ML I deleted the exit code for now, but I'm interested in fixing the
ML permission denied message so it doesn't bounce back. Would you have any
ML ideas about how to do this? I guess that's a question for the Procmail
ML mailing list,
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 the voices made Vivek Khera write:
VK TLS == Tony L Svanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
VK
VK TLS I want to add one thing: SA could actually be a weakness...
VK
VK TLS As one rule among many this sure spamsign might not be enough to
VK TLS tag the e-mail as spam, and even
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the voices made Mike Loiterman write:
ML X-Rot-Version: zvxr^nfpraqrapl(arg
ML
ML Could this ever be used for legitimate uses? Also - what sort of rule
ML would be best to blacklist an email with this in the header? Should it
ML just be points or should it be blacklisted?
I don't really want to admit this, but some time late last night (local time,
earlier than late if you're in the US) I managed to seriously screw up my
mailfiltering... meaning that if I've ever sent you an e-mail and/or you
replied to something I'd written, then late yesterday/today your e-mails
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 the voices made Mike Loiterman write:
ML How would I block it at the MTA? I assume you're talking about Sendmail.
ML What about a concise rule for SA? I'm extremely poor with regexp and any
ML help would be greatly appreciated. Would this do it:
ML
ML
ML X-Rot: =~
If it wasn't for me having the attentionspan of an over-caffeinated, sugar-
hyped 3 year-old I might have remembered to make the point that an XML-based
standard not tied to the firmware of the AP and created by open source-people
easier can find its way into APs, then the other way around; and
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 the voices made Mike Loiterman write:
ML Is there an advantage to using one or the other (procmail recipe vs SA
ML rule)? It seems odd to hard code such things into procmail, IMO. Seems
ML like SA rules are easier to implement, change or remove. For now, I'll use
ML this:
I'm an idiot... just ignore this. =)
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 the voices made Tony L. Svanstrom write:
TLS If it wasn't for me having the attentionspan of an over-caffeinated, sugar-
TLS hyped 3 year-old I might have remembered to make the point that an XML-based
TLS standard not tied
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:27:06PM +0100, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
It depends on what you want to do; if you want to have hundreds of rules with
different scores, then SA is way superior, but if you've got a simple hit this
one and die die die-thing then why waste your servers time having
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 the voices made [EMAIL PROTECTED] write:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Unitedmedia seems to be a reasonably big syndicate.
The Dilbert Newsletter is opt-in only.
Many people subscribe to it.
This is clearly a won't fix, because real geeks either sitescrape or let
procmail
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 the voices made Justin Mason write:
JM If anyone can suggest others added by other MTAs, it'd be much appreciated.
With some luck you can get the env-address out of one of the Received-headers.
/t
--
# Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Through knowledge towards
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 the voices made Duncan Findlay write:
Funny, I don't want people to CC me on replies (or even address them
To me). That's why I'm not in my Reply-To or Mail-Followup-To: header.
Yet, strangely enough, I do get CC'd most of the time.
It's standard behavior when you reply
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 the voices made James D. Stallings write:
Does anyone know if there is a way that I can have SA send a
message that is detected as spam back to the spammer stating
you are not welcome and this message is blocked...??
1. SA doesn't send nor delete e-mails, it just tags
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 the voices made Justin Mason write:
(a) it lets legit publishers avoid relatively-obvious trouble areas
(like talking about spam laws etc.)
Like everyone already could do, but only spammers bothered to do.
(b) it lures spammers into a false sense of security, as
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 the voices made Mike Burger write:
Out of curiosity..I've been rejecting with a code of 550...what's the
difference between 550 and 553?
URL: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2821.txt #4.2.2:
# 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
# (e.g.,
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 the voices made John Rudd write:
1) Have your mail client put a copy of all outgoing messages into a
particular folder (like Sent). (most clients do this already, so its
no big deal)
2) Write a program which parses that file out and adds those addresses
to a file,
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 the voices made Jeremy Zawodny write:
Well, it's not *trivial* but I don't think it's huge either. You need
to scan all outgoing mail and maintain a list of destination
addresses. Then integrate that into a site-wide SA whitelist.
Am I missing some complexity?
Well,
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 the voices made Steve Evans write:
Keep a database with every address that e-mail is sent to. Have a rule
with a negative value that checks that database on incoming mail.
I find it quite unlikely that any address that someone would send a
message to would ever be
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 the voices made Justin Mason write:
Still, it'd be nice to know *what* they plan to do with it, how they plan
to make it available to other antispam filter devvers without giving it
all away to spammers, and if they have any plans for QAing the submitted
spam -- it's very
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 the voices made Bob Amen write:
Philip Mak wrote:
I wonder what would happen if the spammer had sent X-Spam-Flag: NO
as part of the header in the spam message. Would it fool
procmail/maildrop?
I doubt it would fool procmail.
It won't fool procmail.
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 the voices made Nathan Henderson write:
What would be the best way to go about setting up an html control panel
for configuring whitelists and such?
Learning how to program CGI-related things would be a great start. =)
/Tony
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# Per scientiam ad libertatem! //
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 the voices made Rick Macdougall write:
phpsa.php is included with spamassassin and only requires fixing a few
typos.
Hey, please remind me to keep my keys of the keyboard the next time I want to
write a less than helpful e-mail (ignore the e-mail I sent about a minute ago
http://javascript.internet.com/
Use this script in HTML documents where you would place an email address.
script language=JavaScript!--
// hide script
var sb_domain = mydomain.co.uk
var sb_user = username
var sb_recipient = sb_user + @ + sb_domain
var sb_url = mailto:; + sb_recipient
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 the voices made Steve Thomas write:
| As suggested before, I think it's always a good idea to rewrite email
| addresses on the web not to look like [EMAIL PROTECTED], but, of course, this
| won't last for very long as e.g. sf.net's user AT host DOT tld is quite
| easy to
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 the voices made Steve Thomas write:
I considered that, which is why I went from adding one character to three.
The odds of me hitting on a domain that exists are pretty slim. Maybe I'll
grab all of the domains out of the archives and see how many actually exist.
I'll bet
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 the voices made Steve Thomas write:
| what about changing the tld to .invalid?
Too easy for the spammers to spot. I'd rather they waste their time and
resources and add pollution to their address lists than discard the address
from the get-go.
Do both... I don't want to
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 the voices made Jan Korger write:
But what if spammers do randomly add guessed domain names to their lists?
Whatif someone sells guessed email addresses to spammers? My point is, if
spammers do add wrong addresses to their dbs and don't even remove them if
there's no MX
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 the voices made Kenneth Porter write:
BTW, an open port 135 might as well be considered a solicitation for a
message, so it would be hard to prosecute anyone using this to send a spam.
BTW, an open port 25 might as well be considered a solicitation for a
message...
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 the voices made Martin Radford write:
I've spotted in the last day or so a possible spam-indicator based on
the Message-ID of a number of recent spams.
These have the format:
Message-ID =~ /^10[0-9]{8}\.[0-9]{7}\.0\@\S+$/
(i.e ten digits dot seven digits dot zero @...)
Thought y'all'd be interested in their reply...
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From: Jennifer Bogren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Tony L. Svanstrom' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:18:35 -0700
Subject: RE: eNom Inc. $6.95 Domain Pricing
Hi Tony,
We found you on Google.com. You
Would anyone care to share their thinking regarding doing business with eNom?
A quick google seems to indicate that they're a really bad spamming company
going after just about anyone, but AFAIK their services are exactly what I want
and at a price that I'm comfortable with; so... before
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 the voices made Adrian Hill write:
NB: Please set your newsgroup browser to post in text-only mode. HTML is not
fully supported by all newsgroup readers and is also much less efficient,
taking longer to download.
Spamassassin only does the detection of spam, and will run
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 the voices made Joerg Henner write:
I've a similar problem. When mail is tagged as SPAM, and the mail itself is
encoded (MIME, multipart, ...) i cant see/view those attachments (it looks
like, there is all-in-one part after the spamassassin -P command).
Any solutions for
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 the voices made Matthew Cline write:
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:02 am, Hess, Mtodd, /mth wrote:
I hate to bring this up, but I see more and more spams that contain very
little, if any, text. Instead, most of the spam text is in a graphic
image. How will we be able
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 the voices made Matthew Cline write:
The GA can only handle rules that give a simple hit or miss-result, right?
There would be multiple rules, like ratio 0.9, ratio 0.5, ratio
0.3, and so on.
I was just interested in the limitations, lack thereof, in the almightly
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 the voices made Joel Epstein write:
I currently have spam being filtered for about 50 users via spamd.
Works perfectly! However, is there anyone out there providing reports
to their users about what was filetered? Maybe just something like
date/time, From, and subject?
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 the voices made Marc Perkel write:
Yes they are!! I didn't solicit the Yahoo ad. ADVERTISING = SPAM. But
you still missed my POINT so you should read my message and quit arguing
values.
(I don't want to add to the noice on the list any longer, just one last
comment and
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 the voices made Bart Schaefer write:
TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY
UNSUB_PAGE
MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ
These are the other big positives, all hitting on legitimate
opt-out mechanisms. Why is it a bad thing to provide several
different ways to opt out?
When together
Oooops, first I started writing this off-list, then I changed my mind but
forgot about the subject-change... =(
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 the voices made Tony L. Svanstrom write:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 the voices made Marc Perkel write:
Yes they are!! I didn't solicit the Yahoo ad. ADVERTISING
URL: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/22/1516234.shtml?tid=111
Discussing the article/page at:
URL: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2557
/Tony
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# Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Through knowledge towards freedom! #
# Genom kunskap mot frihet! =*= (c)
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 the voices made Shane Williams write:
If only the original article had anything to do with spam. The study
focused not on commercial or bulk mail, but how likely respondents were
to answer a simple question, and whether that likelihood changed if
there were only one or
I just want some positive feedback regarding a project that will design
software that will remove ads in e-mails, once I get that I'll start with the
actual code...
Would people be interested in using and/or writing plugins for the different
services that they use?
/Tony
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# Per
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 the voices made Robert Strickler write:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 the voices made SpamTalk write:
Like the thinkgeek at the bottom of these postings? ;)
Yeah, I was planing on having all plugins off when installed, and some
scale on morality, or whatever it might be
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 the voices made Joel Epstein write:
ok... now what? =)
If the following is in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, why does the
following mail not get tagged?
Are you using spamc/spamd and forgot to restart spamd?
/t
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# Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Through
On Thursday 18 July 2002 03:51 CET Kenneth Porter wrote:
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 16:10, Malte S. Stretz wrote:
Very nice!
On my website [1] I have a public e-mail address which is created every
time you visit a page and contains date, time and IP of the visit. Now,
finally, I got
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 the voices made Malte S. Stretz write:
That's why I'm currently working on a way to obscure the localpart; compress
and encipher it and encode it in a way that it is made of (lower case)
characters and a few numbers only. But this won't work with SSI (at least
without
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 the voices made Kevin Gagel write:
MTA creates a temp file. I'm allowed to do anything with this file, so I launch
spamc and send it to spamd via a pipe. Ie: spamc tempfile. Here is where I
have the problem. Is SA supposed to alter the temp file? or am I supposed to
pipe
On 16 Jul 2002 the voices made Lance A. Brown write:
spamc tempfile tempfile
Which will result in an empty 'tempfile' being sent to spamc under most
shells. You need to redirect the output to a different file and then
move it back to tempfile after spamc completes.
Sorry, I was
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 the voices made Stacey Conrad write:
Does the auto whitelisting work against you if, say, a user forwards you
their spam for blocking?
The name is confusing, because it's more of an auto white or black
list-thing; sliding the scores up or down to even the average score
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 the voices made [EMAIL PROTECTED] write:
Matt suggests (and IMO it's a good plan) that we modify the AWL to use
mailaddr:sendingip as the key instead of just mailaddr. This would
avoid this problem, and the similar one where spammers are now forging
spams with a From
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 the voices made Darren Coleman write:
This is such a special case that it would probably be the wrong thing to
do to insert additional rules into the public distribution of SA just to
take account of this. Easiest solution is just to zero the rules or, if
this isn't
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 the voices made Ryan Cleary write:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 the voices made Darren Coleman write:
This is such a special case that it would probably be the wrong thing to
do to insert additional rules into the public
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 the voices made Craig Hughes write:
And there's also the computation time involved in checking a rule --
particularly when said rule might be poorly written and have unpleasant regex
characteristics. Could easily lead to deliberate of accidental DoS attacks
against the
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Ben Jackson write:
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:24:38AM +0200, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
I've been hit by this too, and I can't help but think that these blacklists do
more harm than good. Spammers will easily move on, but for the small non-tech
company
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Patrice Fournier write:
body LOCAL_LONG_WORD /[a-zA-Z]{90}/
describe LOCAL_LONG_WORD LOCAL: Long random word in body (90 chars+)
scoreLOCAL_LONG_WORD 4.8
Why 90? Wouldn't it work better with 50 or 60, so that it catches ID-strings;
or atleast
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Andrew Kohlsmith write:
Has anyone taken a huge spam database and sent it through some sort of
genetic learning program to see if spam can be identified that way?
Um.. yeah. http://www.spamassassin.org. You might be familliar with them.
That's only
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Andrew Kohlsmith write:
That's only for scoring the humanmade rules; what he's talking about is
more like letting the GA create both the rules and the scores.
A neat trick but I haven't seen *any* genetic algorithm able to both ask the
questions *and*
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Bart Schaefer write:
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
I guess you could [...] first rewrite the text, and then see if it's
about selling and/or buying products and/or services.
Except that about selling and/or buying products and/or services
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Malte S. Stretz write:
And you gave me another idea: SpamAssassin could track it's own table with
checksums of mails it saw. If it received one mail more than, let's say,
four times in three days then this mail is probably a mass mailing. This
makes most
About harvesting not e-mail but real addresses in a damn clever, way too
clever, way...
URL: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/07/07/2150208.shtml?tid=133
/Tony
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson write:
But with the large amount of Outlook Express users out there I imagine that
this rule will cause alot of false positives. You can talk all day about MS
not following RFC standards but in the end the customer still gets
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