Re: Another flood of spam

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:10:12 +0100, Qubby wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > >> Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! > > I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) > box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could get to i

Re: Another flood of spam

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:01:10AM +, Qubby wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > > > Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! > > I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) > box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could

Re: Another flood of spam

Lesley Binks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have no idea but I wish they could block this stuff. I have just > marked up 103 spam messages and, as a relatively new subscriber, am Holy crap. With my homegrown procmail and bogofilter setup, I haven't seen 103 spam in the past month! You should dum

Re: Another flood of spam

On Tue January 8 2008, Brian wrote: > I should've stated previously, this is on a freeBSD mail server.  At any > rate, here are the mods I made.  Search the appropriate Linux docs for > correctness of these. > > To local.cf I added > ok_locales en I did a google, and you can either put the line th

Re: Another flood of spam

Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue January 8 2008, Brian wrote: I turned on the SA ok_locales function yesterday and loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry, these helped somewhat. would you explain these a little.. is that 2nd line a file entry? how do you "turn on" ok_locales?

Re: Another flood of spam

That's good. Now I just have to deal with it on my personal address. On 1/8/08, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the > f

Re: Another flood of spam

Hi, On Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? > ;-) Should be fixed by now. See http://cord.de/blog/index.php?entry=entry080108-144308 for more details. Greetings Martin -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Another flood of spam

On Tue January 8 2008, Brian wrote: > I turned on the SA ok_locales function yesterday and loadplugin > Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry, these helped somewhat. > would you explain these a little.. is that 2nd line a file entry? how do you "turn on" ok_locales? I think I turned off Spamass

Re: Another flood of spam

Lesley Binks wrote: On 08/01/2008, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? ;-) I've seen a slight increase in spam sent to

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 8, 2008 8:47 AM, Lesley Binks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no idea but I wish they could block this stuff. I have just > marked up 103 spam messages and, as a relatively new subscriber, am > wondering whether the cost is worth the benefit. > Nobody would blame you if you unsubscrib

Re: Another flood of spam

On 08/01/2008, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? > > ;-) > > I've seen a slight increase in spam sent to m

Re: Another flood of spam

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? > ;-) I've seen a slight increase in spam sent to me directly slipping through my spamassassin filters, but nothing like the flood coming from

Re: Another flood of spam

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:53:17PM -0500, Shane D wrote: > True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. > > It's not good, but it is helpful. Er, waitaminnit. Let me get this straight. If there were no spammers, we wouldn't have developed spam filters, and therefore we w

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 7, 2008 8:53 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > was wondering if somebody could help with a procmail rule to select email > which > is in a different language (ie allow through english, but not anything else) I believe spamassassin has language rules, either by default or readily

Re: Another flood of spam

was wondering if somebody could help with a procmail rule to select email which is in a different language (ie allow through english, but not anything else) On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:53:17PM -0500, Shane D wrote: > True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. > > It's no

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 7, 2008 8:01 PM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/7/08, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's very possible. I've been furiously flagging things as spam in gmail > > all morning and others have probably flagged the same messages too, causing > > I'm not sure whether

Re: Another flood of spam

On 1/7/08, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's very possible. I've been furiously flagging things as spam in gmail > all morning and others have probably flagged the same messages too, causing I'm not sure whether or not "mark as spam" in gmail does anything other than just sending t

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:49 PM, David wrote: Well, we might have to disagree here. I simply can't equate spam, which is invasive - agreed, with theft/ burglary/misappropriation. People who run large mail servers and have to devote resources to processing spam might disagree. Spammers essential

Re: Another flood of spam

David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:32 PM, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. Agreed! And, I've made the point before, spam is good. Without it, spam filtering wouldn't evolve. That's like sayin

Re: Another flood of spam

True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. It's not good, but it is helpful. And I want to know why they know enough about me to _stop_ sending me ads. Where did they get the private information on, well, my private information? On 1/7/08, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:32 PM, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. Agreed! And, I've made the point before, spam is good. Without it, spam filtering wouldn't evolve. That's like saying "if not for thieves

Re: Another flood of spam

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. Agreed! And, I've made the point before, spam is good. Without it, spam filtering wouldn't evolve. You can draw the parallel with the body's defensive system being continually condit

Re: Another flood of spam

Hey Doug, In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. I do not think any one was having a _go_ at the list maintainers. They are doing a perfect job. People are just stating there has been an influx in spam, not only on this list. -- Cheers, Juli

Re: Another flood of spam

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:50:00PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > I'm getting it on Debian-user, and Debian-user-fr. > > Anyone know how to set up bogofilter on Kmail to filter out spam from > mailing lists? > > Bogofilter on Kmail is working fine with all the non mailing list > spam, and 99.5% go

Re: Another flood of spam

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:49:05 +0200 Georgi Naplatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Howie wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 4:09 PM, Quincy Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > Spam here too! > > > > I notice no spam in the Ubuntu users list maybe they hav

Re: Another flood of spam

Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 4:09 PM, Quincy Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Spam here too! I notice no spam in the Ubuntu users list maybe they have a better filter? Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! :) -- Chris Howie http://

Re: Another flood of spam

On 2008-01-07 08:10:28 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > As much as I do not want to restrict the Debian lists to "subscribers > only post", I will not be surprised nor blame the Debian developers > if that decision is made. This could be taken into account in scoring. Moreover, I've noticed that mos

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 7, 2008 4:09 PM, Quincy Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spam here too! > > I notice no spam in the Ubuntu users list maybe they have a better filter? > Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! :) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:C

Re: Another flood of spam

: > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? Who's in charge of that? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 7, 2008 11:11 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? > > ;-) > > Jonathan > > What I find funny is that t

Re: Another flood of spam

8, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > > > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. > > > > Who lowered the > > > > > floodgates? > > > > > > Who's in charge of that? >

Re: Another flood of spam

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? > ;-) > Jonathan What I find funny is that three or four of them have a [SPAM] tag in the subject. Are the spammers becoming better nettizens?

Re: Another flood of spam

> On 1/7/08, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > > > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. > > Who lowered the > > > floodgates? > > > > > > Who's in charge of that? &g

Re: Another flood of spam

> Don't blame DEBIAN. > I'm getting hit hard from everywhere!!! > > phishing and Nigerian is up significantly. > A huge increase from previous months. > > On 1/7/08, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Jonathan Kaye wrote: &

Re: Another flood of spam

Yup. I'm even marking the stuff from this list, too... WooHoo! Saving the spam from the rest of the world. On 1/7/08, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 8:14 AM, Qubby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I haven't seen anything in my Gmail inbox. Maybe Google zapped it before I >

Re: Another flood of spam

On Jan 7, 2008 8:14 AM, Qubby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't seen anything in my Gmail inbox. Maybe Google zapped it before I > checked my mail account? > That's very possible. I've been furiously flagging things as spam in gmail all morning and others have probably flagged the same mess

Re: Another flood of spam

Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2008, "Shane D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: I randomly started getting a lot of it that hit my inbox last night, too. About the same time. Very weird. Not strange at all. We all know the

Re: Another flood of spam

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2008, "Shane D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I randomly started getting a lot of it that hit my inbox last > night, too. About the same time. Very weird. Not strange at all. We all know there are a relative few large-

Re: Another flood of spam

Don't blame DEBIAN. I'm getting hit hard from everywhere!!! phishing and Nigerian is up significantly. A huge increase from previous months. On 1/7/08, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > I see we have been hit by another fl

Re: Another flood of spam

Jonathan Kaye wrote: I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? Who's in charge of that? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another flood of spam

I know! But it doesn't look like the advertisements for [insertnameofillegalprescriptiondrughere], it's just like e-bay and credit and "I won [insertlargesumofmoneyhere]!" On 1/7/08, Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shane D wrote: > > I randomly started getting a lot of it that hit my

Re: Another flood of spam

Shane D wrote: I randomly started getting a lot of it that hit my inbox last night, too. About the same time. Very weird. And the gMail blocker usually gets stuff. I've had almost all of it to my inbox! I to can report the same issue. Might be me, but still weird. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Another flood of spam

I randomly started getting a lot of it that hit my inbox last night, too. About the same time. Very weird. And the gMail blocker usually gets stuff. I've had almost all of it to my inbox! On 1/7/08, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see we have been hit by another floo

Another flood of spam

I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? ;-) Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]