On Sunday, September 19, 2004, 10:11:27 AM, Landry wrote: LW> Pete, I am wondering why Sniffer has such a problem detecting LW> the so-called "NIGERIAN" types of spam. It seems that I have been LW> forwarding several of them daily to the spam@ address for weeks, LW> but Sniffer still consistently misses them. There must be some LW> kind of pattern that Sniffer can trigger on to catch these types LW> of spam. It hasn't been a real problem for me since SpamAssassin LW> always catches them, but for those that are not running LW> SpamAssassin, they must see lots of these types of spam showing up LW> in their inboxes daily.
We have quite a few rules for these, however they are constantly evolving. Up to now I've been very conservative with the rules that I create for these types of messages because they deal directly with the text and I want to avoid false positives. The other rules we do create are for the contact info - so at least that can never be used again once we've seen it. I will look again to see if there is a way to be more aggressive about these without risking more false positives. Do keep sending them in. _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
