Re: Pretending to use The Bat!

2005-02-19 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Roman Katzer everyone else, on 19-Feb-2005 at 05:40 you (Roman Katzer) wrote: Interesting. This SpamAssassin must really be badly maintained. Actually, it's pretty well maintained Everyone can fake the X-Mailer header so that it contains the identification of a genuine mail program.

Re: Pretending to use The Bat!

2005-02-19 Thread MAU
Hello Mica, %COMMENT=This is The Bat!, (wo)man. :tbflag: Accept this fact, leave this message alone (virgo intacta) and live in peace. I think I'm going to do something like that. Great Idea! :-) But I doubt that anyone could talk effectively with an administrator, or even anti-spam

Re: Pretending to use The Bat!

2005-02-19 Thread MAU
Hello Robin, Well, so am I. But to prevent possible problems such as you encounter, I disguise my mailer slightly - see my X-mailer header. Actually, I use one of a list of 21 equivalents to The Bat! in a variety of languages. But that is still like hiding part of my identity and I don't see

Re: Pretending to use The Bat!

2005-02-19 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Alexander, On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:03:08 +0100 GMT (19/02/2005, 16:03 +0700 GMT), Alexander S. Kunz wrote: ASK Everyone can fake the X-Mailer header so that it contains the ASK identification of a genuine mail program. The spam I get claims to be (or ASK is) written with Microsoft Outlook

Re: Pretending to use The Bat!

2005-02-19 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Thomas Fernandez everyone else, on 19-Feb-2005 at 13:53 you (Thomas Fernandez) wrote: The faked X-Mailer a spam software created was a TB version, but there was another header in those mails that wold be created only by Outlook, X-MSMail-Priority: Normal. That's how the faked X-Mailer

Re: Pretending to use The Bat!

2005-02-19 Thread Mark Partous
Hello Alexander, Saturday, February 19, 2005, 3:08:08 PM, you wrote: ASK The ASK point is that a totally legit message created with TB v3.0.2.10 or 3.0.1.33 ASK will get a spam rating from SA because of the wrong FORGED_MUA_THEBAT ASK problem, so I'm back to my statement that they shouldn't

Again, why only TB built-in filters are enough to fight all sorts of SPAM

2005-02-19 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just few thoughts about anti-spam strategy, before I forget it... Cringely, Info World http://www.infoworld.com: BEGINNING Filter This: Spam may be annoying, but spam filters may prove a bigger problem. Dozens of readers have contributed terms to

Re: Again, why only TB built-in filters are enough to fight all sorts of SPAM

2005-02-19 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Mica Mijatovic everyone else, on 19-Feb-2005 at 18:01 you (Mica Mijatovic) wrote: Filter against what you *accept*/receive, not against what you do *not*. (-: Isn't that exactly what you do when you train a(ny) Bayes filter? -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ

Re: (no subject) Re: TB GnuPG

2005-02-19 Thread MFPA
Hi On Friday 18 February 2005 at 8:54:23 PM, in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], David Calvarese wrote: My only real issue with buying it is that I need to use it on 2 PCs. my work PC (for personal email) and my home PC (for the same). But I'm only ever going to be signing on one at a time. As far as

Re: (no subject) Re: TB GnuPG

2005-02-19 Thread MFPA
Hi On Friday 18 February 2005 at 8:02:16 PM, in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander S. Kunz wrote: Let's see how it behaves regarding the sig delimiter. I think you would have to inline sign, not PGP/MIME for the sig delimiter to be affected. Much better if you ask me, because its PGP/MIME

Re: Again, why only TB built-in filters are enough to fight all sorts of SPAM

2005-02-19 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ***^\ ._)~~ ~( __ _o Was another beautiful day, Sat, 19 Feb 2005, @ @ at 20:11:40 +0100, when Alexander S. Kunz wrote: Hello Mica Mijatovic everyone else, on 19-Feb-2005 at 18:01 you (Mica Mijatovic) wrote: Filter against