Is this news true ( spams down by 75% )
http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/128340%
2cspam-volumes-drop-75-percent-in-a-day.aspx
On my servers I havent seen any big change
Thanks
Ram
On 17.11.08 18:15, Mark Martinec wrote:
I have been using USER_IN_SPF_WHITELIST to whitelist mails from google
alerts
It had been working fine , but last 2-3 days I see that these mails dont
get an SPF-pass. Seems guys at google are using some other servers
whitelist_from_dkim [EMAIL
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:08 +0530, ram wrote:
Is this news true ( spams down by 75% )
http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/128340%
2cspam-volumes-drop-75-percent-in-a-day.aspx
On my servers I havent seen any big change
If you were inflicted by that particular botnet, you would have
Difference in Spam getting through Spamhaus-Zen and ClamAV signatures
(which include ClamAV, SaneSecurity, MBL, and one other)?
No, delivered spam is about the same # of messages as before.
Difference in number of messages getting bounced by Spamhaus-Zen and
ClamAV? Down about about 40-50%.
ram wrote:
Is this news true ( spams down by 75% )
http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/128340%2cspam-volumes-drop-75-percent-in-a-day.aspx
On my servers I havent seen any big change
I've seen a drop on a number of servers that I manage.
The best illustration I've found is from Spamcop;
mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Henrik K wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:49:00AM +0100, mouss wrote:
Henrik K wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:25:42PM +0530, ram wrote:
The number of DNSWL_LOW and DNSWL_MED misfires have gone up especially
in last two days. Even Marc's JMF_W misfires.
Our poor spamassassin machine is not able to keep up with the mail
load. We are constantly getting prefork: server reached --max-children
setting, consider raising it errors, and our max-children are already
set at the max that this machine can handle (50).
Since we are using spamc/spamd I
Micah Anderson wrote:
Our poor spamassassin machine is not able to keep up with the mail
load. We are constantly getting prefork: server reached --max-children
setting, consider raising it errors, and our max-children are already
set at the max that this machine can handle (50).
Since we are
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Troy Settle wrote on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:10 -0500:
I'm having a major problem with the bayes system. I cleared the bayes
database and let it start re-learning. Once it kicked in, I again
started getting false hits with BAYES_00=-2.599 on a great many spam/uce
Henrik K wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:29:07PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
Over at another post about Phishing[0], Brent suggested setting up
hostkarma.junkemailfilter to my RBL list, which I have done... However
it seems to hit a lot of spams giving them a -5 scoring. I've either got
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:19 -0500, Troy Settle wrote:
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Troy Settle wrote on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:10 -0500:
I'm having a major problem with the bayes system. I cleared the bayes
database and let it start re-learning. Once it kicked in, I again
started getting
From: Troy Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:56 -0500
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Troy Settle wrote on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:10 -0500:
I'm having a major problem with the bayes system. I cleared the bayes
database and let it start re-learning. Once it
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:34:36PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
If we had a 30% FP rate we would be out of business. I think that's an
exaggeration.
What do you call 294 hams out of 836 JMF hits then?
Don't take it personally, even barracuda has similar ratio. I can't add many
points with it
Troy Settle wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:56 -0500:
From incoming mail.
well, but how? By auto-learning? In that case you are just multiplying your
problem. It seems a lot of spam gets miscategorized as ham. Auto-learning
that spam as ham means enforcing this miscategorization and that's
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:16:27PM +0200, Henrik K wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:34:36PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
If we had a 30% FP rate we would be out of business. I think that's an
exaggeration.
What do you call 294 hams out of 836 JMF hits then?
To be fair, I do have zen etc
Yes I see a drop in total messages and spam and I see similar
results from http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spammonth.
Since they knocked off McColo, my unfortunate neighbors in the San
Francisco Bay Area, my mail server has more disk space since I have
been quarantining certain spam
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
well, but how? By auto-learning? In that case you are just multiplying your
problem. It seems a lot of spam gets miscategorized as ham. Auto-learning
that spam as ham means enforcing this miscategorization and that's what you
see as a result.
When SpamAssassin decides
James Wilkinson wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:56:34 +:
well, but how? By auto-learning? In that case you are just multiplying your
problem. It seems a lot of spam gets miscategorized as ham. Auto-learning
that spam as ham means enforcing this miscategorization and that's what you
On Tue, November 18, 2008 22:16, Henrik K wrote:
The problem is catching smallish local ISP type relays. If such users send
lots of ham inside Finland and only the occasional spam/virus leak to some
US honeypot, it's no surprise your list can't be foolproof. I guess I have
to build my own
Micah Anderson wrote:
Our poor spamassassin machine is not able to keep up with the mail
load. We are constantly getting prefork: server reached --max-children
setting, consider raising it errors, and our max-children are already
set at the max that this machine can handle (50).
Since we
as I note in the comments on the blog post -- it seems likely
that the people having problems are using a bad version of re2c.
--j.
by bad version, do you mean one that doesnt compile or finish compiling
properly, or one that compiles (completes compilation) yet does bad stuff
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