Re: Psst!

2006-10-25 Thread Roger Taranto
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 04:19, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? Every once in a while, I go to the unsubscribe link from some spam and put my spamtrap address there. If they truly honor the unsubscribe request, then nothing happens to them. If

Re: Psst!

2006-10-25 Thread Roger Taranto
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:33, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 14:18, Roger Taranto wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 04:19, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? Every once in a while, I go to the unsubscribe link from some spam

Re: Very big auto-whitelist file

2006-08-31 Thread Roger Taranto
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:00, Stéphane LEPREVOST wrote: A little question about AWL : I have an auto_whitelist how looks VERY HUGE to me : -rw---1 root root 1241124864 Aug 31 17:51 auto-whitelist Do you think a 1.2 Gb AWL file is NORMAL ? I don't think so and plan to use

Re: Proposal: First URI black list, how about email address black lists?

2006-05-20 Thread Roger Taranto
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 02:19, jdow wrote: (It would be a real serious gas to hook a 419 phish to Eliza and watch for the results. Generate a somewhat paranoid Eliza then sit back and party. Of course, if *I* could think of this extension of the lead them on counter phish then I am sure somebody

Re: whitelist_from_spf is not working

2006-05-03 Thread Roger Taranto
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 21:29, Matt Kettler wrote: jdow wrote: From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ramprasad wrote: Hi, I am using SA 3.1.1 as a module in MailScanner. I am not able to get whitelist_from_spf working. In my local.cf I have ifplugin

Re: Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-14 Thread Roger Taranto
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 23:38, John Rudd wrote: And, reiterating Kenneth's question: Anyone have advice for an almost middle-aged person who wants to go about expanding his natural language capabilities? There was an article in Newsweek a few weeks back about language immersion vacations.

Fwd: Razor2 is open and free.

2006-03-30 Thread Roger Taranto
I'm forwarding this from the Razor-users list with Vipul's permission. -Roger -Forwarded Message- From: Vipul Ved Prakash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: razor-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Razor-users] Razor2 is open and free. Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:19:27 -0800 Folks, I am

Re: razor-whitelist never works

2006-03-17 Thread Roger Taranto
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 11:34, Matt Rossiter wrote: Does anyone have some suggestions for me to try? You'll probably have better luck on the razor-users list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users -Roger

Re: OT: Spammers' reactions to rejection

2005-11-17 Thread Roger Taranto
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:17, Matt Kettler wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: Spammers need to clean their address lists once in a while, lest they end up with a very low proportion of valid addresses, right? No, they don't have to clean it. If it didn't tie up sockets on our machines, it seems

Re: Oh the temptation......

2004-10-15 Thread Roger Taranto
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:04, jdow wrote: Someone used my address with the name Daniel Hofer. So about 10% of the spam I get is instantly filterable with that name and variants. Well, a new variant of 419 has hit my mailbox. Someone named Allan Hofer died in Nigeria. And he left a big estate.

Re: [OT] FUN: Something to send your family members!

2004-09-16 Thread Roger Taranto
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 09:14, Chris Santerre wrote: So for anyone who knows what I'm talking about on this page, feel free to spam it to all your friends and family! ;) You *must* check out the t-shirts here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/ Especially this one:

Re: delivery to multiple mailboxes from single account

2004-09-13 Thread Roger Taranto
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 12:20, Robert Menschel wrote: Copy William Sterns' blacklist file from http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current.cf into your user_prefs. I was doing this, but this list is so large that it caused spamassassin to take about 20 seconds to initialize each