I don't know how much spam is getting caught on my local filter (I use gmail), but I find one type of spam is consistently getting through, and that's the spam that has usually a single random word as the subject, an image containing the spam, followed by several lines of random words, and sentences, brocken only by spaces. I belive Jeff was working on the image spam filters. How is comming along Jeff? :-)
Another idea I just came up with, was to attach a link to the bottom of each email labeled "report spam" or something, which pings the mail servers, and when it receives say, 3 hits, it will black list the user, or if your feeling adventurous, dynamically alter the spam rules, after scanning for, and cataloging the patterns in the message. :-] ...or mabye not. - Andreas On 11/3/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
T Murray wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently moderate the slug-chat list - heaps of spam gets killed > every day before it hits the digest. While new spam is being blocked > old mail rules are allowing spam through into the lists. > > The only real solutions that I see are: (1) edit all existing mail > rules to ensure integrity, or more drastically (2) Remove all > subscribers from the lists and have a re-subscription period for all > real members. A variation on this theme - identify all subscriber who have posted in the past, say 3 posts in 6 months, then kill off the subscription list and just resubscribe from that selection, all others having to resubscribe manually. That way the active subscribers don't have to do anything and the spurious subscribers will get binned. > > This has been a topic that has be discussed time after time - and I > dont think there is going to be an easy pain free solution. > > What do you think? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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