RE: spam increase

2008-03-12 Thread Jason Bertoch
-Original Message- From: Mike Fahey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:14 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: spam increase Has anyone else noticed a major increase in spam over the past two days? I'm seen a 40% increase. I've gone from blocking 60

RE: spam increase

2008-03-12 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
I have, most of from countries I block to a spam trap folder for bayes. > -Original Message- > From: Mike Fahey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:14 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: spam increase > > > Has anyone else noticed a major increase i

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-13 Thread Michael Scheidell
John Rudd wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: > >>> It is very easy to unsubscribe at >>> genutrust.com/trust . It would be impossible to get all the >> >> Even easier to add scores to SA rules so that thousands of users don't >> have to individually unsubscribe from yo

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Stuart Johnston wrote: > John D. Hardin wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > >> (can we come up with an RBL for domains registered with jokers?) > > > > A while back I suggested a more-general spammer-friendly-registrar > > RBL. > > > > Can anyone

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread John Rudd
On Aug 12, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: Whois registrat is joker (can we come up with an RBL for domains registered with jokers?) There are some legit domains hosted on joker :p Ok, so out of thousands, there are 'some'. You sleep with dogs, you get flees. Bleh. As much

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread John Rudd
On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: It is very easy to unsubscribe at genutrust.com/trust . It would be impossible to get all the Even easier to add scores to SA rules so that thousands of users don't have to individually unsubscribe from your partners lists. Also, violatio

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread Stuart Johnston
John D. Hardin wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Michael Scheidell wrote: (can we come up with an RBL for domains registered with jokers?) A while back I suggested a more-general spammer-friendly-registrar RBL. Can anyone give me a seed list of the registrars we would consider "spammer-friendly"?

RE: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Duncan Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:32 AM > To: Michael Scheidell > Subject: Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams > > > > > Whois registrat is joker > > (can we come up with an RB

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread Stuart Johnston
John D. Hardin wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Michael Scheidell wrote: (can we come up with an RBL for domains registered with jokers?) A while back I suggested a more-general spammer-friendly-registrar RBL. Can anyone give me a seed list of the registrars we would consider "spammer-friendly"?

RE: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Michael Scheidell wrote: > (can we come up with an RBL for domains registered with jokers?) A while back I suggested a more-general spammer-friendly-registrar RBL. Can anyone give me a seed list of the registrars we would consider "spammer-friendly"? I want to try some ideas

RE: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Genutrust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:58 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams > > > > Just a quick note. I am from Genutrust.com. We do not harv

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-12 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, John Rudd wrote: > Any service sending ads that doesn't regularly ask "still want to > be on our list?" and automatically unsubscribe anyone who doesn't > positively respond, has no business saying that they're not > sending spam. Most definitely true. > To: Genutrust <[EMAI

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-11 Thread John Rudd
I see this statement every so often, and frankly, I don't buy it. If I sign up for a product registration with one of your partners, it should not be my burden to be sure your partners don't use it for spam and don't give it to you for spam (and, yes, it's still spam in that situation). I

Re: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-08-11 Thread Genutrust
Just a quick note. I am from Genutrust.com. We do not harvest any information, nor do we send spam email. If your user was on our list, it is because she subscribed through one of our partners. It is very easy to unsubscribe at genutrust.com/trust . It would be impossible to get all the informatio

RE: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
Title: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams   From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:19 AMTo: Spaml (E-mail); SaTalk (E-mail)Subject: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams One of our users received a spam today from genutrust .com, URL in s

Re: Spam increase after "upgrade" to 3.03 on Debian Stable

2005-10-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Bill Moseley wrote: > > I updated two very similar Woody machines that day, and this machine > was trouble -- for some reason dist-upgraded removed a number of > packages for a reason I'm not clear on. (Like Apache and Bind!) > OT and probably too late, but in case anyone else's planning to do t

Re: Spam increase after "upgrade" to 3.03 on Debian Stable

2005-10-07 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:18:11AM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > The most likely cause is a misconfigured trust path. 3.0.x introduced > the ALL_TRUSTED rule. This rule is supposed to fire with a negative > score if the message has not passed through any "untrusted" servers. > A common problem is

RE: Spam increase after "upgrade" to 3.03 on Debian Stable

2005-10-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Matthew Lenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Also make sure that if you are using bayes learning that > spamassassin is still able to read the bayes_ files. There must > have been some incompatibility with mine because I had to nuke > everyones bayes_ files and return sa-learn so that bayes s

RE: Spam increase after "upgrade" to 3.03 on Debian Stable

2005-10-07 Thread Matthew Lenz
Also make sure that if you are using bayes learning that spamassassin is still able to read the bayes_ files. There must have been some incompatibility with mine because I had to nuke everyones bayes_ files and return sa-learn so that bayes started kicking in again. Also the config problem that B

RE: Spam increase after "upgrade" to 3.03 on Debian Stable

2005-10-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I had a server running Debian Woody which was running, IIRC[1], 2.6x. > After upgrading to Sarge now running 3.0.3-2 and exim 4.50-8 the users > are complaining of a lot more spam getting through. I'm now seeing it > also -- looking at a few of my