Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-04 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Sergeant said: > > So, you haven't heard about drive-by spamming? You find an open wireless > > lan connection and sit in somebody's front drive and spam away for a while. > > It's a myth. Don't believe everything you read. There are far more open > relays than you could ever possibly ne

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
Kerry Nice wrote: > From: "Daniel Rogers" > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:29:08PM -0700, Matthew Cline wrote: > > > Geez, that's worse than using open relays. To what depths *won't* > spammers > > > sink to? > > > > None, clearly. It's only a matter of time before they start breaking in > to

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
> > Why do I have a feeling that not even making spam (and spamming) > > completely illegal would stop it at this point? > > Hasn't worked too well for pot, has it? > I really don't think you'll find government officials in Santa Cruz, CA handing out spamming tools. Pot, yes. Spamming stuff? Dou

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-03 Thread rODbegbie
Daniel Rogers wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:25:59PM -0400, Kerry Nice wrote: >> So, you haven't heard about drive-by spamming? You find an open wireless >> lan connection and sit in somebody's front drive and spam away for a >> while. > > No, but I can't hardly say as I'm surprised. It's s

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-03 Thread Daniel Rogers
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:25:59PM -0400, Kerry Nice wrote: > So, you haven't heard about drive-by spamming? You find an open wireless > lan connection and sit in somebody's front drive and spam away for a while. No, but I can't hardly say as I'm surprised. Why do I have a feeling that not even

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-03 Thread Kerry Nice
From: "Daniel Rogers" > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:29:08PM -0700, Matthew Cline wrote: > > Geez, that's worse than using open relays. To what depths *won't* spammers > > sink to? > > None, clearly. It's only a matter of time before they start breaking in to > people's houses to send mail on thei

RE: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, SpamTalk wrote: > I don't have time to point you to the url, I searched metacrawler for mySQL > replication and in one of the references it stated that you could not cross > platform replicate as the *.myd and *.myi files were not binary compatible That's not "replication," t

RE: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-01 Thread SpamTalk
PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:40 PM To: Robert Strickler Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:56:31AM -0500, Robert Strickler wrote: > Original proposal posted December 2001, heh. "Nothing new under the > sun". >

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-01 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:56:31AM -0500, Robert Strickler wrote: > Original proposal posted December 2001, heh. "Nothing new under the sun". > > To answer my own question, mySQL _does_ do replication the bad news is that > the files are not OS/archetecture agnostic, you cannot replicate between

RE: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Strickler
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:52 AM To: SpamTalk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist SpamTalk said: > Probably better than the "spam phrases" approach would be the database > appr

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-10-01 Thread Justin Mason
SpamTalk said: > Probably better than the "spam phrases" approach would be the database > approach as currently used for white/black listing. > Any way to tie that to an XML retrieval from a list of central repositories? > Does mySQL do replication? A properly done XML would let us eyeball the li

RE: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread SpamTalk
om: Daniel Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:09:48PM -0500, SpamTalk wrote: > Shouldn't a list such as this this be a part of the next release in > the same ma

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread Daniel Rogers
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:29:08PM -0700, Matthew Cline wrote: > Geez, that's worse than using open relays. To what depths *won't* spammers > sink to? None, clearly. It's only a matter of time before they start breaking in to people's houses to send mail on their computers. We even had one a

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread Daniel Rogers
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:09:48PM -0500, SpamTalk wrote: > Shouldn't a list such as this this be a part of the next release in the same > manner as frequent spam phases? I'm happy to provide my list, either for just a couple people, or for inclusion in the distro. The only problem is that there

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Cline
On Monday 30 September 2002 09:20 am, Daniel Rogers wrote: > These message are being sent by (apparently) exploiting machines that have > been subjected to a particular virus, or are in some way vulnerable to this > abuse. I've had two of my dialup users' machines used for this spam in the > las

RE: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread SpamTalk
Shouldn't a list such as this this be a part of the next release in the same manner as frequent spam phases? -Original Message- From: Andrew Burgess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:45 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist D

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread Andrew Burgess
Daniel Rogers wrote: > Personally, I just have some (rather large) body tests in my local.cf with > bad domains in 'em. Please post these to the list if they're not already available somewhere. Thanks very much Andy --- This sf.net email is s

Re: [SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread Daniel Rogers
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:32:55AM -0500, Dan Abernathy wrote: > I'm seeing quite a few porn spams lately that SA is letting through. These > are text messages with wording "innocent" enough not to trigger SA, but > peppered with links to terra.es hosted porn sites. Yeah, I've been getting those

[SAtalk] URL blacklist

2002-09-30 Thread Dan Abernathy
I'm seeing quite a few porn spams lately that SA is letting through. These are text messages with wording "innocent" enough not to trigger SA, but peppered with links to terra.es hosted porn sites. Any chance we could have a user-configured blacklist section that checks the body for URL matche