Re: CRIME SPAM

From: Sarah Mocas (sarah@private)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 12:01:28 PST

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    This list is using spamassassin, and as noted it is missing
    the egyptcat stuff.
    
    Sarah 
    
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    > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:20:56AM -0800, Dorning, Kevin E - DI-3 wrote:
    > > We have been receiving a pretty significant amount of SPAM via the Crime
    > > mailings lately.  Is there someone who is taking on the responsibility
    > > to deal with this problem?
    > 
    > No. It is an administrative decision to do practically no spam filtering
    > on this list. I use spamassassin and like it. Others swear by spamcop.
    > I've heard good things about bogofilter. (I also hear bogofilter needs
    > training. I've got 40+ megs of spam if you want to train a bogofilter.)
    > I understand future versions of mozilla are going to include some simple
    > anti-spam measures. And many ISPs offer spam-filtered mail, if you don't
    > want to do anything about it yourself. :)
    > 
    > (Unfortunately, the spamassassin ruleset I'm using never catches those
    > egyptcat jerks. They don't send enough spam for me to dedicate twenty
    > minutes to figuring out how to write spamassassin rules...)
    > 
    > I try to submit my incoming spam to vipul's razor, so if you want to run
    > that, you might get the benefits of me reading my email...
    > 
    > And, as a final note, I'm always surprised at how much more emails crime
    > has about spam than actual spam emails themselves...
    > 
    > --=20
    > Nothing says, "Superpower" like bombing a country that is poor and
    > hungry. -- Ken Brush
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