Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-02-08 Thread jidanni
Dear sare-users Adam Katz tried to post these to your list. Please read http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/126545 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/126547 However, as in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/126330

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Katz
Adam Katz wrote: > header SARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0B X-Spam-Relays-External =~ > /^[^\]]+ rdns=[^ ]{0,25}\bdynamic.hinet\.net / Minor bugfix that doesn't affect my findings: That second range should have prohibited both space and right-square-bracket. Because there is more than 25 characters of buf

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Katz
Note, I am not on the SARE list. This message is more directed at the SARE developers and thus that list. It copies the SA users list. I wrote: >>> This rule is poorly written as it does not limit its examination >>> to the last external relay. LuKreme responded: >> The rule quite specifically

Re: The ninjas have left the building (was Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush)

2010-01-31 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Also note that SARE Ninjas are long gone - see main page http://www.rulesemporium.com/. So nobody could fix those rules even if they thought it was a good idea (and at least some people are not convinced it is a bad idea); and even if the rules could be fixed, still at least half the world

Re: The ninjas have left the building (was Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush)

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:27:59 PM, Marc Sherman wrote: > Matija Nalis wrote: >> >> Also note that SARE Ninjas are long gone - see main page >> http://www.rulesemporium.com/. So nobody could fix those rules even if they >> thought it was a good idea (and at least some people are not convinc

The ninjas have left the building (was Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush)

2010-01-30 Thread Marc Sherman
Matija Nalis wrote: Also note that SARE Ninjas are long gone - see main page http://www.rulesemporium.com/. So nobody could fix those rules even if they thought it was a good idea (and at least some people are not convinced it is a bad idea); and even if the rules could be fixed, still at least

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread Matija Nalis
Firstly, the instructions for reading this e-mail: please read it whole, and understand that (although it may sound harsh at places) I am actually trying to help you. Only then reply (if needed). It is also somewhat long, but it does contain some technical info (and not only my rants :) Thanks. On

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Katz
LuKreme wrote: > I get hundreds and hundreds of spam attempts from dynamic.hinet.net > > $ bzgrep dynamic.hinet.net /var/log/maillog.?.bz2 | grep -i reject |wc -l > 8939 > > That's in 10 days. Nearly 900 times a day. Thank you LuKreme, you have proven my point. I have a good number too, t

Re: [sa] Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: Take another look. The original line must contain 'reject', but the output is not the entire line. Awk. (as an exclamation) :) - C

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread LuKreme
On 29-Jan-2010, at 07:20, Charles Gregory wrote: > > * Strictly for fun. Cuz I'm a geek and can't resist.. > > The code you post could not produce the output shown. Yes it could because it DID > There is no 'reject' in the line 'Relay access denied'. (big wide grin) Jan 28 14:12:58 mai

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Charles Gregory wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, LuKreme wrote: >> $ bzgrep dynamic.hinet.net /var/log/maillog.?.bz2 |\ >>>grep -i reject |\ >>>awk -F: {'print $9'} |\ >>>awk -F';' {'print $1'} |\ >>>sort -u >> Client host rejected >> Helo command rejected >> Recipient address rejected

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Gregory
* Strictly for fun. Cuz I'm a geek and can't resist.. The code you post could not produce the output shown. There is no 'reject' in the line 'Relay access denied'. (big wide grin) No argument about the intended *point* of the output. :) - C On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, LuKreme wrote: $ bzgre

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
please stop spamming this list with this any longer, thanks. If you have grieve take it up with the folks how are responsible, that is the folks *using* the rules and *making* the rules. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread jidanni
Anyway, what you are doing here is penalizing all users of that company's copper wires. No amount of monopoly breakup legislation will do any good if you penalize based on the wrong part of the physical infrastructure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread LuKreme
On 28-Jan-2010, at 11:59, Adam Katz wrote: > > SpamCop sister-site SenderBase seems to indicate at > http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?search_string=hinet.net > that there isn't much traffic coming from IPs whose rDNS contain > 'dynamic.hinet.net' anyway, so it appears they

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread jdow
From: "Charles Gregory" Sent: Thursday, 2010/January/28 08:08 Personally, I find racist analogies childish, and in fact, a little offensive. But, that aside, I don't suppose it has occurred to you that the bulk of spam coming from Taiwan may be originating with businesses in the USA? The 'si

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread jdow
From: "Adam Katz" Sent: Thursday, 2010/January/28 10:59 LuKreme wrote: On 28-Jan-2010, at 09:23, Adam Katz wrote: This rule is poorly written as it does not limit its examination to the last external relay. The rule quite specifically does not look at the top received header because all th

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 13:59 -0500, Adam Katz wrote: > SpamCop sister-site SenderBase seems to indicate at > http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?search_string=hinet.net > that there isn't much traffic coming from IPs whose rDNS contain > 'dynamic.hinet.net' anyway, so it app

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28.01.10 07:13, jd wrote: > What spam is being sent through hinet's smtp servers? hard to say, however the rule in subject doesn't mention their smtp servers... > I have yet to see any connections from their mail servers. Every > connection so far has always been from subscribers' boxes trying

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Katz
LuKreme wrote: > On 28-Jan-2010, at 09:23, Adam Katz wrote: >> This rule is poorly written as it does not limit its examination >> to the last external relay. > > The rule quite specifically does not look at the top received > header because all the spammers were using US based relays to avoid > c

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread LuKreme
On 28-Jan-2010, at 09:23, Adam Katz wrote: This rule is poorly written as it does not limit its examination to > > the last external relay. Were SARE accepting revisions (and assuming > I've read the intent right), it should be reworked so as to be defined > as (be wary of mail agent rewrapping):

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Charles Gregory wrote on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:08:24 -0500 (EST): > Firstly, let's all acknowledge that the OP cross-posted to/from the SARE > mailing list, and continues to do so. He should not have done this and most of us probably didn't notice it. He should just stop doing so and stay on the

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 1/28/2010 5:23 PM, Adam Katz wrote: However, as you noted earlier: It's all because http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_header1.cf header SARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0b Received =~ /\bdynamic.hinet\.(?:com|net|org|info)/ describe SARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0b Email passed through apparent spammer d

Re: [SA] [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Katz
Adam Katz wrote: > This rule is poorly written as it does not limit its examination to > the last external relay. Were SARE accepting revisions (and assuming > I've read the intent right), it should be reworked so as to be defined > as (be wary of mail agent rewrapping): > > header SARE_RECV_SPAM

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Francis Russell
Michael Scheidell wrote: > which in itself has a bunged up RDNS . > > Received: from [208.97.132.207] (HELO homiemail-a7.g.dreamhost.com) > (208.97.132.207) > > > host 208.97.132.207 > 207.132.97.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer caiajhbdccah.dreamhost.com. > if you don't follow the RFC's, y

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Katz
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > You guys are doing something wrong. Maybe you think that every > country is like the USA or something. You blew it. Your rules are > wrong. > > MM> It may not be your fault you're using an ISP which is known to > MM> generate spam [...] you need to complain to the ISP

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: You guys are doing something wrong. Firstly, let's all acknowledge that the OP cross-posted to/from the SARE mailing list, and continues to do so. Yes, there is no one on the main SA list that is responsible for the rule, but that being said, we

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread jd
What spam is being sent through hinet's smtp servers? I have yet to see any connections from their mail servers. Every connection so far has always been from subscribers' boxes trying to get me to relay mail or trying invalid addys. What does that have to do with hinet's mail servers? It seems to

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > "MM" == Michael Mansour writes: > > MM> Why couldn't the mailing list filters simply whitelist your email address > or > MM> whitelist people automatically subscribed to the mailing list? > Yes, but that's beside the point. That is not solving the bad thing > you g

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread jdow
From: "Mike Cardwell" Sent: Thursday, 2010/January/28 03:09 On 28/01/2010 01:34, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: However I can't shake off the Original Sin of Being in Taiwan. All people with Taiwan Colored Skin will have points deducted, no matter what. We use the Telephone Company's ISP. I do

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 28/01/2010 01:34, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Long ago, I tried mailing directly direct-to-mx style, but that of course didn't work, e.g., http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL109625 So only 5% of my mail got through. So then I tried mailing through The ISP Here, Hinet.Net's SMTP server, but

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
jida...@jidanni.org wrote on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:34:46 +0800: > thanks to you guys and no one else. Boy, *you* have a problem, and this is not with SA, get some help, good bye. Please stop further spamming this list with your garbage. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http:/

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread jdow
This is a problem a lot of people face, some for more legitimate reasons than others. I have an Earthlink.net account, from when they were smaller and Sky Dayton still ran the show - actually from not long after he founded the company. Over the years people forged the Earthlink address. Earthlink

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:34:46 +0800 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Yes, and what may seem like a mere 1.6 points is causing me to have to > request the whole spam threshold of that mailing list > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2850/raw be > lowered just for me, just becaus

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 10:35 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Yes, but that's beside the point. That is not solving the bad thing > you guys are doing. Eh? stopping spammers is a bad thing now hey... > MM> The world isn't perfect and the only way to get things changed is to > complaint >

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Jadinni, > > "MM" == Michael Mansour writes: > MM> Why couldn't the mailing list filters simply whitelist your > email address or MM> whitelist people automatically subscribed to > the mailing list? Yes, but that's beside the point. That is not > solving the bad thing you guys are doing

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Jidanni, > Long ago, I tried mailing directly direct-to-mx style, but that of > course didn't work, e.g., http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL109625 > So only 5% of my mail got through. > > So then I tried mailing through The ISP Here, Hinet.Net's SMTP > server, but of course Hinet.Net has a

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread jidanni
Long ago, I tried mailing directly direct-to-mx style, but that of course didn't work, e.g., http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL109625 So only 5% of my mail got through. So then I tried mailing through The ISP Here, Hinet.Net's SMTP server, but of course Hinet.Net has a bad name. So only 50% of

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
so what? Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Kai Schaetzl wrote: So what should a Taiwan user (Taiwan~=Hinet) user do. Buy a SMTP account with a US Company? I told you what you can do. Apart from that, again: SARE is not part of SA. SARE is deprecated. So, why bother? Why bother posting just to tell him that his fate

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:10:48 +0100: > because his mail can be tagged as spam? Not largely a problem. Did you look at the mailing list conversation he linked to? It seems he's actively telling the mailing list owner how to tune SA and reduce the required score to 2 (

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> jida...@jidanni.org wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:12:11 +0800: > > So what should a Taiwan user (Taiwan~=Hinet) > >HINET: Control of approx 8,476,149 IP addresses > > http://www.fixedorbit.com/AS/3/AS3462.htm > > user do. Buy a SMTP account with a US Company? On 27.01.10 12:31, Kai Schaetzl

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
jida...@jidanni.org wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:12:11 +0800: > So what should a Taiwan user (Taiwan~=Hinet) >HINET: Control of approx 8,476,149 IP addresses > http://www.fixedorbit.com/AS/3/AS3462.htm > user do. Buy a SMTP account with a US Company? I told you what you can do. Apart from t

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jdow wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:07:14 -0800: > And it has this disgraceful habit. It works. You are special, anyway. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread jidanni
So what should a Taiwan user (Taiwan~=Hinet) HINET: Control of approx 8,476,149 IP addresses http://www.fixedorbit.com/AS/3/AS3462.htm user do. Buy a SMTP account with a US Company? But that's what I did, as you see from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2850/raw headers.

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread jdow
From: "Kai Schaetzl" Sent: Tuesday, 2010/January/26 03:57 Warren Togami wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:15:23 -0500: Huh? Aren't we supposed to be telling people to stop using SARE? Isn't that a given? The point was that I don't see a reason to ask here about this. It's deprecated and it's

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread jdow
Surely you jest, Sir. {o.o} - Original Message - From: "Warren Togami" Sent: Tuesday, 2010/January/26 03:15 On 01/26/2010 05:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: This is an SARE rule, I suggest you ask there. Kai Huh? Aren't we supposed to be telling people to stop using SARE? Warren

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Scheidell wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:56:04 -0500: > if you don't follow the RFC's, you have no reason to complain if people > who DO follow the RFC's block your email. There is no RFC requiring back and forward resolution to match. I think there's not even a requirement for an rDNS, i

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Warren Togami wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:15:23 -0500: > Huh? Aren't we supposed to be telling people to stop using SARE? Isn't that a given? The point was that I don't see a reason to ask here about this. It's deprecated and it's not part of SA. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Se

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 1/26/10 5:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ned Slider wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:16:47 +: Indeed. If your domain (jidanni.org) is in fact on a static IP then you need to get your ISP to update the PTR record to reflect this. Well, on closer look it appears that he's using a smarth

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread Warren Togami
On 01/26/2010 05:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: This is an SARE rule, I suggest you ask there. Kai Huh? Aren't we supposed to be telling people to stop using SARE? Warren

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ned Slider wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:16:47 +: > Indeed. If your domain (jidanni.org) is in fact on a static IP then you > need to get your ISP to update the PTR record to reflect this. Well, on closer look it appears that he's using a smarthost. So, there's no need for another rDNS for h

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
This is an SARE rule, I suggest you ask there. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-26 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, Fellows, I have the highest spam score vs. all my buddies: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2850/raw It's all because http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_header1.cf headerSARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0bReceived =~ /\bdynamic.hinet\.(?:com

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-25 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, > Fellows, I have the highest spam score vs. all my buddies: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2850/raw > > It's all because > http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_header1.cf > headerSARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0bReceived =~ > /\bdynamic.hinet\.(?:com|net|org|inf

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-25 Thread Dave Pooser
On 1/26/10 12:29 AM, "jida...@jidanni.org" wrote: > So how is anybody living in Taiwan supposed to mail things with honor? > They can't get another country, nor cause a revolution. You just paint > them all with one brush. What if you painted everybody in your home > country with one brush until

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-25 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Dienstag 26 Januar 2010 schrieb jida...@jidanni.org: > Fellows, I have the highest spam score vs. all my buddies: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2850/raw > > It's all because > http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_header1.cf > headerSARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0b

painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-25 Thread jidanni
Fellows, I have the highest spam score vs. all my buddies: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/2850/raw It's all because http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_header1.cf headerSARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0bReceived =~ /\bdynamic.hinet\.(?:com|net|org|info)/ describe SARE_