On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 04:20:20PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
| > There are really only two ideal spam indicators:
| >
| > (1) Who sent it.
| > (2) What proportion of the people who got it, didn't want it.
(3) Is my copy unsolicited junk?
| > Unfortunately there's no way to directly apply e
About harvesting not e-mail but real addresses in a damn clever, way too
clever, way...
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/07/07/2150208.shtml?tid=133 >
/Tony
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THANKS! It's working again!
Harold
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
> > THANKS for the help. I think we're getting closer. First off, in step
> > 3a, was I supposed to delete the word BEGIN at the beginning of the
> > block I deleted?
>
> Yes.
>
> > I did.
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Malte S. Stretz write:
> And you gave me another idea: SpamAssassin could track it's own table with
> checksums of mails it saw. If it received one mail more than, let's say,
> four times in three days then this mail is probably a mass mailing. This
> makes most
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > There are really only two ideal spam indicators:
> >
> > (1) Who sent it.
> > (2) What proportion of the people who got it, didn't want it.
> >
> > Unfortunately there's no way to directly apply either of those criteria.
>
> Not true, and you just
On Sunday 07 July 2002 22:20 CET Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
>[...]
>
> For both the ISP I help at and also the company who pays my bills there
> is a large amount of spam which is sent to a large number of people at
> the same domain. Now I know SA has tests for "similar" email addresses
> but IIRC
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Bart Schaefer write:
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
>
> > I guess you could [...] first "rewrite" the text, and then see if it's
> > about selling and/or buying products and/or services.
>
> Except that "about selling and/or buying products and/o
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> THANKS for the help. I think we're getting closer. First off, in step
> 3a, was I supposed to delete the word BEGIN at the beginning of the
> block I deleted?
Yes.
> I did. Second, I'm still getting complaints. Here's the
> latest entry from the p
> There are really only two ideal spam indicators:
>
> (1) Who sent it.
> (2) What proportion of the people who got it, didn't want it.
>
> Unfortunately there's no way to directly apply either of those criteria.
Not true, and you just gave me an idea.
For both the ISP I help at and also the com
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
> I guess you could [...] first "rewrite" the text, and then see if it's
> about selling and/or buying products and/or services.
Except that "about selling and/or buying products and/or services" is a
poor definition of spam. There's plenty of non-sp
THANKS for the help. I think we're getting closer. First off, in step 3a, was
I supposed to delete the word BEGIN at the beginning of the block I deleted? I
did. Second, I'm still getting complaints. Here's the latest entry from the
procmail log:
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 7 12:32:43 2002
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Andrew Kohlsmith write:
> > That's "only" for scoring the humanmade rules; what he's talking about is
> > more like letting the GA create both the rules and the scores.
>
> A neat trick but I haven't seen *any* genetic algorithm able to both ask the
> questions
> That's "only" for scoring the humanmade rules; what he's talking about is
> more like letting the GA create both the rules and the scores.
A neat trick but I haven't seen *any* genetic algorithm able to both ask the
questions *and* find the answers.
As a language tool something like that w
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 the voices made Andrew Kohlsmith write:
> > Has anyone taken a huge spam database and sent it through some sort of
> > genetic learning program to see if spam can be identified that way?
>
> Um.. yeah. http://www.spamassassin.org. You might be familliar with them.
That's "o
Hello folks,
I'm back and well rested after 2 weeks on tropical islands.
Highly recommend both Petit St Vincent
(http://www.psvresort.com) and Martinique to anyone wanting to
get away for a while.
Turns out that about a day after I left, one of my colleagues
broke my server, with the result
Hi,
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
TLS> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Patrice Fournier write:
TLS>
TLS> > body LOCAL_LONG_WORD /[a-zA-Z]{90}/
TLS> > describe LOCAL_LONG_WORD LOCAL: Long random word in body (90
TLS> > chars+) scoreLOCAL_LONG_WO
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> Sorry about the resend... but I've seen no response as yet. Can anyone
> help me with this? I'd really appreciate it! Perhaps I should just go
> back to a previous version of SA, which seemed to work fine...
The instructions in README are a bit out
> Has anyone taken a huge spam database and sent it through some sort of
> genetic learning program to see if spam can be identified that way?
Um.. yeah. http://www.spamassassin.org. You might be familliar with them.
Regards,
Andrew
---
Thi
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Craig Hughes wrote:
> Any thoughts from anyone that's run into this before running cvs2pl or
> equivalent against a branched CVS tree?
I haven't used cvs2cl myself for a while, but doesn't the following work?
cvs2cl --file Changes --follow b2_3_0
The special tag "tr
So the origin of the problem here is that Justin is Irish, and I
grew up in the UK so my s/z o/ou etc. spelling plus my grammar
is some weird half-assed mishmash of brit and american.
C
On Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 08:57 PM, Danita Zanre wrote:
> Only if you're an American - and by the sp
I noticed this problem at the time, but ignored it, cos I
figured anyone who actually bothered reading the changelog would
likely know what the deal was. But that was probably a bad
assumption since our userbase has started growing so huge now.
We should probably file a bugzilla ticket again
Sorry about the resend... but I've seen no response as yet. Can anyone
help me with this? I'd really appreciate it! Perhaps I should just go
back to a previous version of SA, which seemed to work fine...
Thanks!
HH
=Previously Sent Message
I've been using SA on my own accou
Michael Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> Aha... you need to modify your logrotate scripts to restart spamd. On
> linux, there is a /etc/logrotate.d directory which contains rulesets
> for each service & how to restart (kill -HUP, etc.)
Ok, in fact that's what I have done : I've noticed th
Has anyone taken a huge spam database and sent it through some sort of
genetic learning program to see if spam can be identified that way?
More of a curiosity thing than anything else.
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Quoting "Tony L. Svanstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Patrice Fournier write:
>
> > body LOCAL_LONG_WORD /[a-zA-Z]{90}/
> > describe LOCAL_LONG_WORD LOCAL: Long random word in body (90
> chars+)
> > scoreLOCAL_LONG_WORD 4.8
>
> Why 90? Wouldn't it
Aha... you need to modify your logrotate scripts to restart spamd. On
linux, there is a /etc/logrotate.d directory which contains rulesets for
each service & how to restart (kill -HUP, etc.)
Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
>hello,
>
>In fact, i've installed spamassassin 2.31 to see if it could solve
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Michael Moncur write:
> > Sitting here feeling foolish, I note that usually I can read.
> > USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO should have been a tipoff.
> >
> > I put the list in WHITELIST_TO since so many of the messages
> > discussing spam were getting filtered. Is there a
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Patrice Fournier write:
> body LOCAL_LONG_WORD /[a-zA-Z]{90}/
> describe LOCAL_LONG_WORD LOCAL: Long random word in body (90 chars+)
> scoreLOCAL_LONG_WORD 4.8
Why 90? Wouldn't it work better with 50 or 60, so that it catches ID-strings;
or atlea
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 the voices made Ben Jackson write:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:24:38AM +0200, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
> >
> > I've been hit by this too, and I can't help but think that these blacklists do
> > more harm than good. Spammers will easily move on, but for the small non-tech
> >
hello,
In fact, i've installed spamassassin 2.31 to see if it could solve the
problem and here is what i've noticed : spamassassin stops to log every day
just after the logrotate has finished rotating the logs and that syslog-ng
has been restarted. If I restart spamd, then it logs connections aga
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