Re: [SAtalk] Mail arrival time may be a criteria

2003-08-01 Thread C. Regis Wilson
>Graphing spam and ham amounts, with the help of spamstats >(http://www.gryzor.com/tools), I notice the legitimate >emails mostly arrive from about 9am, until maybe 7pm, on >working days. > I have written about this and others too. The correct procedure is to submit some proposed code to the dev

Re: [SAtalk] those pesky small v*agra ads

2003-08-01 Thread C. Regis Wilson
>Here's the HTML: > >font color="#ff" > This one seems easy to me, but I'm not a programmer. :) Just count the number of "font color" tags. How about a test that is even more generic by counting repeating numbers of HTML tags? EXCESSIVE_REPEATED_HTML something like that. -

[SAtalk] G-a-p-p-y text

2003-07-31 Thread C. Regis Wilson
I have been writing these rules to combine various version of words into one rule. For example: I start with /prescription/ and do some minor subs to make /pr[e3][s5]cr[i1]pt[i1][o0]n/i Then, add gappies /p.?r.?[e3].?[s5].?c.?r.?[i1].?p.?t.?[i1].?[o0].?n/i (Side question, what's a good gap

[SAtalk] Time of day rule?

2003-07-23 Thread C. Regis Wilson
I would also like to see if this is a useful concept: a time of day rule that can add a score to mail sent in "the dead of night". This is probably not universally desired, and maybe should only be a localized setting. That's fine. What I'd like (for example): TIMEZONE = Eastern TIMEOFDAY_1900

Re: [SAtalk] Blacklist-to?

2003-07-23 Thread C. Regis Wilson
>If you read the bug entry, there's a work-arround in there to use a custom >rule to have the same basic functionality. > >http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883 > This worked perfectly. Thank you very much. I did two things: Renamed it for me to LOCAL_BAD_TO_ADDRESS and also adde

[SAtalk] Blacklist-to?

2003-07-22 Thread C. Regis Wilson
There is a function for "whitelist-to" which allows mail to the person in the "to" field (not exactly, but you get my meaning). What about a blacklist-to? We have usernames that consistently show up in the to: or cc: for spam, and we know for sure any mail addressed to those users is spam (the use