Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-05 Thread Jan Schreckenbach
Well, I missed that point (wrote that mail before my first coffee that day). OK, but if that list isn't filtered server-side I need to do so (with the same result) or let SPAM in. At least posting should be restricted to list members. Would filtering based only on headers and using external databa

RE: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-05 Thread Tony Hoyle
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Moncur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 November 2002 10:23 > To: Daniel Quinlan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam > > Corrollary: If they DON'T see something that has

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-05 Thread Vivek Khera
> "JS" == Jan Schreckenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> Hi, JS> why is this list not filtered on the list server? It's open to JS> post for everyone. Should not every list like that be filtered? How exactly do you propose discussing spam and spam techniques without examples? Lists that *

RE: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-05 Thread Quentin Krengel
>why is this list not filtered on the list server? It's open to post for everyone. Should not every list >like that be filtered? Greetings Jan: Filtering this list would somewhat inhibit keyword discussions wouldn't it? As mentioning keywords in a post would trigger SA. Quentin Krengel

RE: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-05 Thread Michael Moncur
> 99.99% of all spammers aren't that bright. They see something that > has an "@" in the middle of it and they'll try to send mail to it... > forever. Corrollary: If they DON'T see something that has an "@" in the middle of it, they'll make up an address and send mail to that forever. (Just fini

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-05 Thread Jan Schreckenbach
Hi, why is this list not filtered on the list server? It's open to post for everyone. Should not every list like that be filtered? cu, Jan Jonathan M. Manning wrote: --On Sunday, November 03, 2002 9:25 AM -0800 John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And the other side of the coin is ... how man

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-04 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Jonathan M. Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the other hand, they do know that there is no spam filtering on the > server side of this list, and lots of people have it whitelisted. 99.99% of all spammers aren't that bright. They see something that has an "@" in the middle of it and they

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-04 Thread Jonathan M. Manning
--On Sunday, November 03, 2002 9:25 AM -0800 John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And the other side of the coin is ... how many spam messages (not reports from list members talking about a spam they caught) have you seen come through SAtalk? I have yet to see one. Really? You must have missed

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-03 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, John Rudd wrote: > > > Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Therefore I suggest adding a rule with a negative score assigned matching > > > > spam reports in message bodies. This is especially usefull for SAtalk, > > > >

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-03 Thread John Rudd
> From: Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 2 Nov 2002, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > > Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Therefore I suggest adding a rule with a negative score assigned matching > > > spam reports in message bodies. This is especially usefull for SAtalk, > > > better than

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Daniel Quinlan wrote: >> I think that might be *way* too enticing for spammers. The solution is >> to just exempt SAtalk and other spam-related mailing lists from spam >> filtering. Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's not a good solution, it's a workaround. I understand the > distin

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-02 22:04:49 +0100]: > > Anyway, the spam that Bob forwarded was going to be marked > > as spam no matter how you handled the SA headers! He said it was > > assigned a score of 42.5 when he originally received it. 42.5. > > He said so, but this must have in

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-02 20:27:54 +]: > At Sat Nov 2 19:31:56 2002, Christian Salzer wrote: > > > > Just wondering, why SA-Talk mails, which contains "quoted" spam are > > reported to razor? > > People auto-reporting to Razor based solely on the SA score, rather > than

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Jonathan M. Manning
--On Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:21 PM -0500 Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:04:49PM +0100, Jan Korger wrote: BTW: Is there a simple command stripping the SA results from a mail as done by 'spamassassin -r'. I want to reprocess my false positives/negatives

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Therefore I suggest adding a rule with a negative score assigned matching > spam reports in message bodies. This is especially usefull for SAtalk, > better than whitelisting as the latter one would also all spam sent to the > list address to pass. (This is

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:04:49PM +0100, Jan Korger wrote: > BTW: Is there a simple command stripping the SA results from a mail as > done by 'spamassassin -r'. I want to reprocess my false > positives/negatives on a regular basis to see whether changed rules will > better SA. I reckon it's not a

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2 Nov 2002, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Therefore I suggest adding a rule with a negative score assigned matching > > spam reports in message bodies. This is especially usefull for SAtalk, > > better than whit

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Martin Radford
At Sat Nov 2 19:31:56 2002, Christian Salzer wrote: > > Just wondering, why SA-Talk mails, which contains "quoted" spam are > reported to razor? People auto-reporting to Razor based solely on the SA score, rather than actually verifying whether or not the message really is spam first. Martin

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Christian Salzer
--Am Samstag, 2. November 2002 10:29 -0700 Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=15.2 required=5.0 tests=ASCII_FORM_ENTRY,BIG_BUCKS,BULK_EMAIL,CHECK_OR_MONEY_ORDER, CLICK_BELOW,COMPLETELY_FREE,FINANCIAL,FREE_MONEY, KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,NO_COST,NO_EXPERIEN

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Jan Korger wrote: > I'm thinking of something linke > > body SA_REPORT_START /SPAM:\s-+ Start SpamAssassin results -+/ > body SA_REPORT_END /SPAM:\s-+ End SpamAssassin results -+/ > body SA_REPORT_LINE /SPAM:/ > body SA_REPORT_C

Re: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Jan Korger
ote: > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:29:36 -0700 > From: Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam > > SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results -- > SPAM: This mail is pr

[SAtalk] Well written spam advertising how to spam

2002-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
This piece of spam I found simply amazing. It is well written. The author appears to be a very intelligent marketer. But his target audience is the newbie spammer! As well written as it is I am sure he will sucker more people over to the dark side. This message was trapped by a friend and forw