Re: [SAtalk] Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 06:39, Andre Bonhote wrote: > I just received a spam with myself in the From: line. Yes, they put MY > OWN E-Mail address there. That was not really funny, because the spam > was not tagged as usual, but given -100 points for being in my > whitelist. > > What can I do agains

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-14 Thread Craig Hughes
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 23:28, Andre Bonhote wrote: > My solution will be: Turn off auto whitelisting at all. Well, no spam filter is going to be 100% perfect. There are emails where when I look at them with my human eyes, and my fairly sophisticated knowledge of spam, where I can't even tell if

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-13 Thread Sidney Markowitz
Andre - > I just received a spam with myself in the From: line. I don't rely on SpamAssassin for my whitelist. I use procmail to run SA, and precede the recipe that invokes spamc with an include of a procmail recipe file that filters my mailing list and other expected mail into appropriate mailb

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-13 Thread Andre Bonhote
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:09:00PM -0800, Craig Hughes wrote: > Don't put yourself in your whitelist :) Hah! Good idea ... but what if I am in the auto-whitelist? > Actually, this raises an interesting issue with AWLs where it'll have > no way of knowing you're you and not someone else with who

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-13 Thread Craig Hughes
Don't put yourself in your whitelist :) Actually, this raises an interesting issue with AWLs where it'll have no way of knowing you're you and not someone else with whom you regularly correspond, which is probably bad, because as you point out, the spammer can easily say the mail is from you. He

[SAtalk] Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-13 Thread Andre Bonhote
Hi there, SA users I just received a spam with myself in the From: line. Yes, they put MY OWN E-Mail address there. That was not really funny, because the spam was not tagged as usual, but given -100 points for being in my whitelist. What can I do against this? Thanks for your kind help Andre