Wow dude... just wow. Somebody is wound tight today. The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll have more test data than you know what to do with.
I was trying to offer a tip while bringing a certain lightness to the topic. Apparently that did not work, but holy crap man... did you think I was making fun of you or something? On Jan 9, 2008 3:03 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:58, Chris Howie wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using > it > > > as an > > > opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to > filter > > > out > > > the mailing list spam. > > > > Give your address to one of those "refer 10 friends and get a free xbox" > > sites. I gave them a disposable email address *once* and that address > has > > eaten over 13,000 messages since 2005-09-28. (For those of you who are > not > > math geeks, that's ~16 messages per day.) A different disposable > address > > given to a similar site has eaten over 3,200 messages since the same > date, > > which is ~4 per day. > > If you can't help with the problem I have, why reply with some sort of > pisch > take. > > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that > occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works fine > with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to deal with > mailing list spam. > > I do not think that spam is funny, and something to laugh at. I check my > wastebin each day after downloading the mail, just to see that no ham has > been put there by bogofilter. Most of it has do with getting a bigger male > member, expressed in a variety of ways, some of which are extremely crude, > and quite obscene. Often I just empty the trash without checking it, as > the > spam that's there is to say the least "sick". > > Perhaps I should just keep this problem on the bogofilter list if the best > that can come from the Debian list is what you have posted. > > I use Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, along with Fedora installs, and other > distro's. > Apart from FC2 that I'm emailing from I find the Debian ones, and > Archlinux > the most stable. I'm upgrading Sarge at the moment, and am surprised that > I'm > not only getting security updates, but also updated packages, so that's a > darned site better than Fedora are doing. > > Rant over. > > Nigel. > -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
