Re: New idea for stopping spam

2018-01-27 Thread Joseph Brennan
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I have noticed that spam tracks current events. We've had a run of spam recently with a teaser subject that Megyn Kelly might q uit Fox news. That's a little less than current! Joseph Brennan

Re: New idea for stopping spam

2018-01-27 Thread Axb
Where I sit this is done by feeding spamtraps to Bayes. No need to name it something fancy. It's been working for over a decade and will keep on feeding my 30GB Bayes/Redis DB. On 01/26/2018 08:49 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK I've been doing some sociological analysis of the spam I'

Re: New idea for stopping spam

2018-01-26 Thread David Jones
On 01/26/2018 01:49 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK I've been doing some sociological analysis of the spam I've been getting on my honeypot, Bays feeder email boxes (dangerous, I know) and I've come up with what I think MIGHT be a way to fight spam that I wanted to run up the flagpole.

Re: New idea for stopping spam

2018-01-26 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:49:07 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip] > Do you think this approach might work? Not any better than Bayes. All your "spam archetype" examples are already easy to stop; we whack them all handily with Bayes. The annoying ones are more like: Subject: hi Subject: 'sup

New idea for stopping spam

2018-01-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi All, OK I've been doing some sociological analysis of the spam I've been getting on my honeypot, Bays feeder email boxes (dangerous, I know) and I've come up with what I think MIGHT be a way to fight spam that I wanted to run up the flagpole. We all know ONE basic thing about spam: Spammer