Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-08-01 Thread Theodore Heise
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Curtis LaMasters wrote: ...I can't tell you how frustrating it is to have to click on each email in a thread to read its content. This caught my eye, and I wonder if there may be a correlation to user preference. I avoid using the mouse wherever possible, p

Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-09 Thread Theodore Heise
Hi all, I don't recall seeing discussion of this question before, but apologize if I've missed it. Occasionally I get unsolicited bulk e-mail on a topic that is of borderline interest to me. My tendency is to deleted it from my spam folder before training the Bayes functions on my spam. I

Re: OT: Spammers' reactions to rejection

2005-11-20 Thread Theodore Heise
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, mouss wrote: Roger Taranto a écrit : If it didn't tie up sockets on our machines, it seems like instead of rejecting the mail, we should just hold on to the mail connection for as long as possible. It wouldn't take too long to tie up all of their outbound connections an

Re: Strange SA report maths.

2005-05-15 Thread Theodore Heise
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Craig McLean wrote: > The scores on the doors (using set 4): > NO_REAL_NAME 0.007 > INVALID_DATE 0.236 > HTML_COMMENT_SAVED_URL 0.146 > BAYES_99 3.5 > HTML_MESSAGE 0.001 > HTML_FONT_BIG 0.142 > MIME_QP_LONG_LINE 0.039 > > The scores for each rule, when added together, are 4.

Re: Strange SA report maths.

2005-05-15 Thread Theodore Heise
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Craig McLean wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Loren Wilton wrote: > |>Now correct me if I'm wrong, but 3.5 + 0.2 + 0.1 + 0.1 is not 4.1 ? > | > | Rounding. See the wiki. > > Can you be more specific? A search of wiki.apache.org/spamassassin shows

RE: If you need proof that spammers use the same resources as us ...

2005-04-30 Thread Theodore Heise
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Chris Santerre wrote: > > > >And various others. It appears to me a timely reminder, as if one > >were needed, that some spammers know what measures are being used > >against them and learn how to combat at least some of them. > Oh this is most definetly a fact. And we have

Re: missing RBLs

2005-02-12 Thread Theodore Heise
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 11:13 AM 2/12/2005, Theodore Heise wrote: > > > The XBL however, has the "notfirsthop" restriction. It won't match > > > any messages that have no trusted relays. Based on the debug > > > output, there we

Re: missing RBLs

2005-02-12 Thread Theodore Heise
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 10:01 AM 2/12/2005, Theodore Heise wrote: > >When the spam in question arrived, several rules did not appear to > >fire; specifically the two RBLs RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET and > >RCVD_IN_XBL, as well as URIBL_OB_SURBL. > >

missing RBLs

2005-02-12 Thread Theodore Heise
Hi all, I'm very puzzled by the attached spam that appeared in my inbox last night. I'm running Slackware 9.1, with SpamAssassin-3.0.0, sendmail-8.12.10, and procmail-3.15.2. I run spamassassin (not spamd), and invoke it from procmail. I use pine4.58 as my client. This all runs on a PIII box w

RE: SPEWS still sucks

2005-01-27 Thread Theodore Heise
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Chris Santerre wrote: > > Oh its real! However my nachos are home made using Cool Ranch Doritos. ;) Naw. They're not homemade until you fry the chips yourself. Might even have to press out the tortillas to qualify... -- Theodore (Ted) Heise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bl

Re: Can someone better explain ALL_TRUSTED to me?

2004-12-05 Thread Theodore Heise
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 08:04 PM 12/3/2004 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > >The thing I've noticed on all of the ones which get through is that > >ALL_TRUSTED is one of the tests listed. > > If your mailserver is NATed (or otherwise uses a reserved IP), you MUST > define

Re: kinda OT procmailrc

2004-11-16 Thread Theodore Heise
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, ChupaCabra wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 16 11:26:35 2004 > Subject: [SPAM] Christmas gift idea - Rolex Watch > Folder: > /home/correspondance/Maildir/new/1100625995.28492_1.mail.cho 5228 > procmail: [28493] Tue Nov 16 11:26:37 2004 > procmail: No match on

Re: ver 3.0 opinions

2004-10-30 Thread Theodore Heise
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, "Tuc at Beach House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > The reason I joined was that I recently upgraded my FreeBSD box from 2.64 > > > to 3.0.1_1 (Not sure what about it makes it _1, but thats ok) > > > > > > As soon as I did, the amount of spam I started getting as > > > goo

Re: Upgrade from 3.0 rc2 to current

2004-10-12 Thread Theodore Heise
ri, 8 Oct 2004, Theodore Heise wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have SA 3.0 rc2 running on my Slackware 9.0 box, and want to > upgrade to the official 3.0 release. I looked through the UPGRADE > file and didn't see any information on whether I need to do anything > with my Bay

Upgrade from 3.0 rc2 to current

2004-10-08 Thread Theodore Heise
Hi all, I have SA 3.0 rc2 running on my Slackware 9.0 box, and want to upgrade to the official 3.0 release. I looked through the UPGRADE file and didn't see any information on whether I need to do anything with my Bayes databases during the process. Thanks for any guidance. -- Theodore (Ted)

Re: pine folder internal data and sa-learn

2004-09-25 Thread Theodore Heise
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Theodore Heise wrote: > I've been pointing sa-learn at Pine mail folders now for over two > years, and just ignoring the fact it's learning from the Pine folder > header. I don't expect to actually get any e-mail resembling it. > During this t

Re: pine folder internal data and sa-learn

2004-09-25 Thread Theodore Heise
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gregory Zornetzer wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, jdow wrote: > > From: "Gregory Zornetzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Generally, I notice that sa-learn processes exactly one more message than > > > I thought was in the folder. When I take a look in the folder with a text >

Bayes scoring question

2004-09-05 Thread Theodore Heise
Hi all, This may have been addressed previously, but I couldn't find it in the list archives. I was looking over scores of my newly installed 3.0.0-rc2 and noticed that for fourth column[1] the BAYES_95 score is higher than BAYES_99. score BAYES_00 0 0 -1.665 -2.599 score BAYES_