Re: CRIME SPAM

From: Alan (alan@private)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 09:51:41 PST

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    On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 12:01, Sarah Mocas wrote:
    > 
    > This list is using spamassassin, and as noted it is missing
    > the egyptcat stuff.
    
    You might want to adjust a few of the rules on Spamassassin.  Postings
    from the Feds also get caught by it.  Too much use of screaming caps.
    
    > 
    > Sarah 
    > 
    > > 
    > > 
    > > --IA03tywDYuoVKXrw
    > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    > > Content-Disposition: inline
    > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
    > > 
    > > 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
    > > 
    > > 
    > > --IA03tywDYuoVKXrw
    > > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
    > > Content-Disposition: inline
    > > 
    > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
    > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
    > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
    > > 
    > > iEYEARECAAYFAj2+4tQACgkQ+9nuM9mwoJloNACeLEkudAT7cu+yrlNcgSysNmhQ
    > > fIgAnRptsWBjvi/51NLFBjkVMukBRSgI
    > > =RF57
    > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
    > > 
    > > --IA03tywDYuoVKXrw--
    > > 
    



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