Re: [SAtalk] Spamwriter

2004-01-15 Thread Brian May
Greg, please don't think that you know everything... SBC DSL FAQ states: Question: Can I run dedicated servers with DSL Internet access service? Answer: Answer last updated: 05-02-02 Yes, as long as you have a static IP address. The best part of DSL Internet access service is that the larg

[SAtalk] HEh...

2004-01-14 Thread Brian May
Thought this was a little humorous... Habeas is Misusing their own mark? - Content preview: Thank you for your email to Habeas! This message has been automatically generated in response to your email regarding "Habeas Misuse", a summary of which appears below. There is no

Re: [SAtalk] Scoring the Habeas header ...

2004-01-13 Thread Brian May
Gerry, Habeas is around to make sure email reaches its destination. SA uses Habeas to push the score down, much like whitelisting. IF spammers use the Habeas headers, and the message is in fact spam, they will be sued. Habeas is used, much like white lists. They serve just about the same p

Re: [SAtalk] Low score for so many hits?

2004-01-13 Thread Brian May
Not the Habeas topic... it all the rave now... all the kids are talking about it.. :) But yes, sometimes the little topics squeek by... but not the major ones... Brian - Original Message - From: "Carl Chipman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Re: [SAtalk] Low score for so many hits?

2004-01-12 Thread Brian May
Because that would destroy the Habeas idea.. all I did was nuke the URL in the message.. pharmwhavetersomthing.biz and I have caught every single one of them. Disabling the Habeas is not the correct thing to do.. but you can do whatever you want.. Brian - Original Message - From: "Raquel

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Brian May
any thing above 4.1 is spam 4.1 to 5 goes to one folder to check for FN 5+ to 12 goes to another folder for checking 12+ to 25 goes to yet another folder... 25+ gets auto reported to razor and like... after all spam that scored under 25 get s a manual inspection then fed to razor and bayes.. all

Re: [SAtalk] habeus

2004-01-12 Thread Brian May
Here is the partial Auto Reply from Habeas.. where they tell you that they most likely will not reply back to you, but will go after the abuser.. Thank you for your report of spam containing the Habeas headers. [snip] With respect to spam containing our headers: Please know that at Habeas we take

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Brian May
Yea.. I guess if I didn't get email for an hour I would wonder whats up.. but you gotta wonder about the people who start to wonder after a few days... heh.. On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:34, Simon Byrnand wrote: > > By all means do it! :) ... but it won't help that there are still > > servers > > t

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Brian May
By all means do it! :) ... but it won't help that there are still servers that use the rbl directly from sendmail or postfix and the like.. :( - Original Message - From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Larry Rosenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECT

[SAtalk] FTC blocks spam sent to the reporting spam address...

2003-08-26 Thread Brian May
I though this was freaking funny... I've been reporting spam to the UCE address for over 6 months, then today I get this (over 200 of them) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host arcticfox.ftc.gov[164.62.7.14] said: 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Rejected:< mydlsIP> listed at dialups.relays.osirusof

Re: [SAtalk] Base64 Encoded not scanned

2003-02-10 Thread Brian May
I have an older 2.50-CVS build that works pretty well... Looks like its a 01/12/03 version... if you (Dan Kubilos or anyone) is interested.. Brian - Original Message - From: "Tony Earnshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [SAdev] NOTICE: mass-check for 2.50 issue

2003-01-14 Thread Brian May
Why not just make it an option for the mass-check app? - Original Message - From: "Daniel Quinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:03 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Re: [SAdev] NOTICE: mass-che

Re: [SAtalk] Deersoft acquisition (thumbs down)

2003-01-07 Thread Brian May
One could argue that the whole point of open source it to use the community to build and test your app.. then sell the product. Deersoft did it.. Cloudmark did it... the only difference, Deersoft sold the company. I understand that the developers need to eat and what not... but I feel like I was

Re: [SAtalk] Return Spam to Sender

2003-01-06 Thread Brian May
Let me be on of many to say, that it's a bad idea. Most spam addresses are fake, and at best, you send it to an email address that is valid, but didn't send the spam. And you create more useless net traffic. It's best to report it to Razor, SpamCop and the like.. or use the trusty Del key... -

[SAtalk] Re: [Razor-users] Spam pimping Cloudmark...

2002-12-31 Thread Brian May
Well.. since the list was spam free... I'd call it spam.. - Original Message - From: "Mike Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002

[SAtalk] Re: [Razor-users] Spam pimping Cloudmark...

2002-12-31 Thread Brian May
as an enter.net address, but I've never seen one.. ) Someone is in defense mode.. - Original Message - From: "Jordan Ritter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, De

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Razor-users] Spam pimping Cloudmark...

2002-12-31 Thread Brian May
No forging there at all.. none of the headers were from cloudmark servers.. it was just some asshat pushing Cloudmarks product.. I'll just keep the info to myself next time... - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jordan Ritter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EM

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin v. snortmonster's sniffer

2002-12-31 Thread Brian May
Wel.. I'd say wait for SA 2.50 wiht bayes support.. It will kick snortmonsters butt.. IMHO.. It also seemed like snortmonster may have caught more of the under 7 range.. it it also detected less spam > However, of those, sniffer said 50 were not spam. Examining them > reveals that 49 were indee

[SAtalk] Spam pimping Cloudmark...

2002-12-31 Thread Brian May
I thought this was funny... spam pimping anti-spam product by Cloudmark... Received: from LISTSERV.AOL.COM (tem01.mx.aol.com) by lmailaol2.aol.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:37:15 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.AOL.COM by LISTSERV.AOL.COM (LI

Re: [SAtalk] Where is the spam

2002-12-30 Thread Brian May
Perl version or SpamAssassin Pro? - Original Message - From: Jeremy Dold To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Where is the spam Actually I've got it on a Win32 platform plugged in to Guinevere. I know there is an option to archive spam, whi

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.50-cvs

2002-12-28 Thread Brian May
-- URI: URL of page called "remove" * 0.3 -- URI: 'remove' URL contains an email address * 0.2 -- URI: Includes a 'remove' email address * 0.9 -- 'Message-Id' was added by a relay (3) * 1.2 -- message body is 25-50% uppercase ----- Original Messa

Re: [SAtalk] Is this a spam?

2002-12-27 Thread Brian May
Did you request the email? Is the email something that you want? If you answered No, SPAM. If you answered Yes, ham. for me.. SPAM. - Original Message - From: "Ross Vandegrift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 10:59 AM Subject: [SAtalk] Is this

Re: [SAtalk] Is this a spam?

2002-12-27 Thread Brian May
Did you request the email? Is the email something that you want? If you answered No, SPAM. If you answered Yes, ham. for me.. SPAM. - Original Message - From: "Ross Vandegrift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 10:59 AM Subject: [SAtalk] Is this

[SAtalk] SA 2.50-cvs

2002-12-26 Thread Brian May
I'm very happy with the bayes and other additions for 2.50-cvs.. I've been running it for the past 2 weeks... and I have had only 3 false positives (which where spam, but from sources I wanted email from). Can't wait for the release! --- This

Re: [SAtalk] Subject with blank (hidden) body

2002-12-20 Thread Brian May
well, if the message that you posted was complete, there wasn't a BODY tag.. so text would default to the system default. And the whole message seemed to be made out of images. (well and the html to load the image) You could always up the score for html only messages.. but then I bet your false p

Re: [SAtalk] 2.50 question

2002-12-20 Thread Brian May
SA Had a problem with Razor2 (if you can call it a problem) when Razor2 first came out. Basically, (If I remember correctly) SA's problem was, it didn;t support Razor2, because the SA-Devel team was testing Razor2 first to make sure that Razor2 would play nice with SA. The first couple of release

Re: [SAtalk] how do i turn off the automatic replies to spam

2002-12-15 Thread Brian May
Yes, something addded it, but it wasn't SpamAssassin. - Original Message - From: "Drav Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Arne Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, Decembe

Re: [SAtalk] how do i turn off the automatic replies to spam

2002-12-15 Thread Brian May
So this line doesn;t bother you at all? >> Diagnostic-Code: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist or >> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). >> >> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its >> recipients. This is a perma

Re: [SAtalk] Anti-spam-assassination?

2002-12-11 Thread Brian May
Fine by me.. they aren't using my baysien databases.. SA-2.50-cvs... I love you. err umm.. yeah. Brian - Original Message - From: "Kurt Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Anti-spam-assassination? Seen thi

Re: [SAtalk] 2.50CVS false positives

2002-12-06 Thread Brian May
With Bayesian enabled.. wouldn't it have a higher hit count? I didn't see that in your list of test matches... - Original Message - From: "Michael Moncur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: RE

Re: [SAtalk] You have a secret admirer

2002-10-30 Thread Brian May
now thats funny! :) You mean someone likes SpamAssassin? - Original Message - From: Someone Likes You To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:35 PM Subject: [SAtalk] You have a secret admirer Guess what... You've got a secret admirer! Want to find out who? Just click

[SAtalk] man pages...

2002-10-15 Thread Brian May
Is there anyway we can add the version number of the release to the man pages? I know this seems kind of silly, but I just removed some very old man pages from /usr/share/man/man1 I think they were dated 6/15/02 or 01, but it would be MUCH easier to tell if I was looking atthe correct man pages i

Re: [SAtalk] s/SPAM/spam/ it seems

2002-07-08 Thread Brian May
I'm sure this can be site specific... :) - Original Message - From: "Kip Turk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:13 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] s/SPAM/spam/ it seems On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote: >

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-announce] Deersoft Emerges to Combat Spam

2002-06-14 Thread Brian May
Was there supposed to be a Makefile.PL is the tar.gz file? Brian - Original Message - From: "Craig R Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: [SAtalk] [SA-announce] Deersoft Emerges to Combat Spam Press Release SOURCE: Deersoft, I

RE: [SAtalk] Ammusingly misconfigured spam software

2002-06-09 Thread Brian May
You know.. I make my living writing code in VB.. and I must say it pisses me off when people say that VB coders are "dumb". For personal use, I write code in perl, PHP, C and yes VB. What are your reasons for calling VB coders dumb? Please reply off list. -Original Message- From: [EM

RE: [SAtalk] Ammusingly misconfigured spam software

2002-06-09 Thread Brian May
Not to nitpick, but that is most languages.. if you don't know how to use the languange.. its kinda hard to make it do what you want it to do... :) Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bryan Hoover Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 10:59 P

[SAtalk] Hows this for an email tagline...

2002-06-05 Thread Brian May
The person emailing me had what they wanted to say in the subject line, and I guess the email server added this little ditty on at sendtime... from bakernet.com start here and go to the end. --- This is an email from Baker & McKenzie, solicitors. The contents of this email are confidential t

[SAtalk] Strange Headers...

2002-05-31 Thread Brian May
Has anyone seen this header before? Google had no matches. X-Stormpost-To: It was one of the headers of spam that got through... ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- htt

[SAtalk] Autowhite list...

2002-05-31 Thread Brian May
How would an auto white list db file get created if my only command line to spamd is -d and spamc has no arguments? I'm kinda stumped on this one... the only entry in there is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint P

Re: [SAtalk] OutLook Express 3.14159

2002-05-30 Thread Brian May
3.14159 is the begining of Pi... I don't think M$ would be that cute about its version number.. Brian - Original Message - From: "Patrice Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:10 PM Subject: [SAtalk] OutLook Express 3.14159 Hi, Has anyone

Re: [SAtalk] large numbers of tiny scores = SPAM!

2002-05-29 Thread Brian May
Thats why in spam assassin you can set the scores yourself... fit them for your needs.. Brian - Original Message - From: "Rob Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:43 AM Subject: [SAtalk] large numbers of tiny scores = SPAM! Maybe it's bec

Re: [SAtalk] Apologies for absence/slowness this week

2002-05-24 Thread Brian May
Maybe for you! heh. someone had to say it.. Congrats Craig... Brian --- Groom Killed By Stripper's Boobs Wednesday January 16, 2002 "Those breasts were lethal weapons," he told reporters. - Original Message - From: "Matthew Cline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Th

[SAtalk] auto-whitelist.db problem...

2002-05-15 Thread Brian May
I know something like this was discussed here a few days ago.. but I didn't see a resolution to the problem. I've been using spamassassin for a while now.. and I love it.. removed all of my procmail spam recipes.. Anyway.. as soon as I switched to spamd/spamc my auto-whitelist.db, which SHOULD