[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-12 Thread era
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:38:16 -0500, Bryan Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> For many of these, one can observe that the "user name" in the From: >> header often also occurs in the Subject line. This could be a useful >> rule pattern, although

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-11 Thread Bryan Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For many of these, one can observe that the "user name" in the From: > header often also occurs in the Subject line. This could be a useful > rule pattern, although there are bound to be false positives, so the > score should be rather low. > > I don't know off-hand if t

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-10 Thread Bryan Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /^Reply-to:\s*(<[-a-z0-9_.]+\@([-a-z0-9_]+\.)+[a-z]+>)\s+\1/i > > Underscore is not technically valid in a domain name but you do see > them in practice anyway. > > I'm not sure this is any better than what I originally posted, as I > haven't tested this properly. My

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-10 Thread era
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 00:28:31 -0600, Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > I've got a mailbox full of messages that got past SA > They are all from the same spammer. Hmm, not all of these have the Reply-to pattern which the followups were concentrating on. Here are th

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-10 Thread era
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:44:56 -0500, Bryan Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > /^reply-to:[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.org|\.net)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.org|\.net)\$/igm >> This is probably a sufficient pattern, but one distinguishing feature >> in the exam

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-09 Thread Bryan Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /^reply-to:[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.org|\.net)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.org|\.net)\$/igm > > This is probably a sufficient pattern, but one distinguishing feature > in the examples was that the same address would be repeated twice. Think there were instances with two different

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-08 Thread era
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 17:19:26 -0500, Bryan Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > Robert Nicholson wrote: >> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Do we have a way of dealing with the spammer who's Reply-To's always >> look the same? > Oh, but it's

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-07 Thread Bryan Hoover
Robert Nicholson wrote: > > I've got a mailbox full of messages that got past SA > > They are all from the same spammer. What sort of stuff is in the messages? And if it's a bulk send -- that is, a real spammer, as opposed to someone targeting only you (which would be, most likely, for the most