Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-22 Thread Jack Gostl
Well its back. I thought my bayes files had finally caught up to it, or maybe one of the sa-update downloads did the trick, but now it returns like bad meatloaf. It astounds me how this slips under the Bayes radar.

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-11 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:47, Jack Gostl wrote: Now that you mention it, yes, it had a Geocities URL. - Original Message - From: John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:09 PM Subject: Re: Dear Homeowner spam One more

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Mason
: Dear Homeowner spam One more reason to permanently blacklist geocities in SURBL IMHO. Even a better reason for the Spamassassin team to find out how this spammer manages to consistently evade all filters. These spams have been slipping through for so long I'm starting to suspect an inside

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-11 Thread Jack Gostl
- Original Message - From: Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Dear Homeowner spam John Andersen writes: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:47, Jack Gostl wrote: Now

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Homeowner spam One more reason to permanently blacklist geocities in SURBL IMHO. Small deployments could get away with it, but if you're a large ISP you'd never here the end of the complaints about it. My WebRedirect plugin takes care of geocities spam nicely though. Even a better reason

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Can someone forward me a copy of the spam in question as an attachment? Nevermind, I just found one. 16.4 on this particular one. My bayes rules are scored a little higher than default and I've got a few additional rules though: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-11 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:37, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: One more reason to permanently blacklist geocities in SURBL IMHO. Small deployments could get away with it, but if you're a large ISP you'd never here the end of the complaints about it.  My WebRedirect plugin takes care of

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:37, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: One more reason to permanently blacklist geocities in SURBL IMHO. Small deployments could get away with it, but if you're a large ISP you'd never here the end of the complaints about it. My WebRedirect plugin

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-09 Thread Jack Gostl
Now that you mention it, yes, it had a Geocities URL. - Original Message - From: John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:09 PM Subject: Re: Dear Homeowner spam

Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-03 Thread Jack Gostl
I've been getting a bunch of spam hawking mortgage rates. You may have seen it, it starts with Dear Homeowner. Tthe only test that flags this message is BAYES_50, for all practical purposes a score of 0. What concerns me the most is that this triggers autolearn=ham. I later feed this back

Re: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-03 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 07:26 -0500, Jack Gostl wrote: I'm considering lowering the autolearn threshhold to less than zero. I wonder if anyone else has any thoughts on this as well. I set the autolearn for ham to -10, so it has to be very hammy to get learned. Seems to work well. SA should

RE: Dear Homeowner spam

2007-01-03 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Can you post (a link to) an example mesage? I am pretty sure they are caught in my setup. -Sietse From: Jack Gostl Sent: Wed 03-Jan-07 13:26 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Dear Homeowner spam I've been getting a bunch of spam hawking mortgage rates. You may have seen