On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:09:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:30, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:32:01AM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +0000, Gary Roach wrote: > > > > Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. > > > > It seems to me that much of this spam includes graphic images > > (presumably that contain ads but I don't open them). Could the list > > just block any posts containing graphic images? I suppose there may be > > a need for a legitimate post of an image so why not specify .ps files > > only? > > > > Doug. > > That is not a solution. Spammers can always use .ps files to send their spam. > Besides not every email containing a graphic image is spam. For example, one > might be attaching a .jpg screenshot with a font problem he is having on his > computer. >
Except that I've never seen a spam with a ps file and one can turn a jpg into ps before posting it. Since the spam doesn't seem to be targeted specifically to *N*X system users, it may be safe to think that their targeted audience mostly is running *doze. Sind *doze people can't handle .ps files easily there's less incentive for the spammers to send .ps files. So the list filter could drop any messages containing parts other than text/html, .ps, and .gz files. The other thing I've noticed is that a new spam will have a subject starting with Re: . Could not the list filter verify that the subject Re'd actually exists in the list archive within a set time frame (30 days?). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
