:o) Hey, Wait a minute. - - - I'm a Fed! :o) -----Original Message----- From: Alan [mailto:alan@private] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:52 AM To: Sarah Mocas Cc: Seth Arnold; Crime List Subject: Re: CRIME SPAM 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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