RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Jack Gostl Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 11:38 PM: > We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. Some quick queries of my spam stats log database say we're at over 75%. Landy and Jack you are lucky. I'm sure there ar

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Colin A. Bartlett Kinetic Web Solutions office: 610-831-9030 x51 mobile: 215-292-2193 home: 215-292-2616 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Gostl Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 11:38 PM To: landy Cc: SA Subject: Re: [SAtalk] bad day

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Antonio Nó Rodríguez Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:06 PM > How do you get those nice logs? I've been looking for something similar > but haven't find anything yet. > Thank you > Antonio I wrote an ASP script (It's all I know) that reads the maillog from our SA server into our MS SQL server. It

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 17:55 13/10/2003 -0400, landy wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:54, Simon Byrnand wrote: > > > > We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > > have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. > > Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not counting viruses

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread landy
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:54, Simon Byrnand wrote: > > > > We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > > have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. > > Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not counting viruses, > which get blocked before spamassass

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Antonio Nó Rodríguez
How do you get those nice logs? I've been looking for something similar but haven't find anything yet. Thank you Antonio El lun, 13-10-2003 a las 03:16, landy escribió: > i cant believe today i have so fat 21% spam > > > File /var/log/mail : from Oct 12 00:05:27 to Oct 12 21:10:54 > Total number

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread cyrille
landy a écrit: File /var/log/mail : from Oct 12 00:05:27 to Oct 12 21:10:54 Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 171 Number of spams :36 ( 21.05%) Number of clean messages: 135 ( 78.95%) ... Hello what script do you use to

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jack Gostl wrote: > > Given that spammers are now using hijacked machines as HTTP proxy servers, > > you're more likely to DDOS several dozen poor schmucks' home cable modem > > No... I think you missed something here. If the spam was hawking the "ABC > Corp. wrinkle removal

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Jack Gostl Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 11:38 PM: > We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. Some quick queries of my logfile database say we're at over 75%. Most of you are lucky. I'm sure there are some among u

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Gostl
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jack Gostl wrote: > > > By the way, there is an interesting article on "fighting back" by Paul > > Graham called "Filters That Fight Back." > > > > http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html > > > > He basically suggests culling URLs

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread mikea
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:24:27AM -0400, Scott Blomquist wrote: > > > Simon Byrnand wrote: > > >>We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > >>have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. > > > > > > Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not cou

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jack Gostl wrote: > By the way, there is an interesting article on "fighting back" by Paul > Graham called "Filters That Fight Back." > > http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html > > He basically suggests culling URLs from spam and kicking off something > like wget to retri

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Scott Blomquist
Simon Byrnand wrote: We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not counting viruses, which get blocked before spamassassin even runs. Kinda makes you wonder where

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Gostl
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > Jack Gostl Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 8:15 AM > > > All of which makes me wonder exactly who is motivated to fix this mess. I > > suppose that any day now someone will say that spam is the engine of > > economic recovery. (G) > > _We_ are. The

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Jack Gostl Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 8:15 AM > All of which makes me wonder exactly who is motivated to fix this mess. I > suppose that any day now someone will say that spam is the engine of > economic recovery. (G) _We_ are. The more people that we can get to implement this sort of filteri

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Bill
> Kinda makes you wonder where the world is heading when more > email is junk than legitimate :/ > I see the email world heading towards secure email. A world where you cannot send an email until/unless your mailer software has a key installed that validates all mail leaving your site. If you re

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Gostl
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Simon Byrnand wrote: > > > > We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > > have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. > > Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not counting viruses, > which get blocked before spamassassin even

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Simon Byrnand
> > We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not counting viruses, which get blocked before spamassassin even runs. Kinda makes you wonder where the world is headi

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Gostl
We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, landy wrote: > i cant believe today i have so fat 21% spam > > > File /var/log/mail : from Oct 12 00:05:27 to Oct 12 21:10:54 > Total number of emails

[SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-12 Thread landy
i cant believe today i have so fat 21% spam File /var/log/mail : from Oct 12 00:05:27 to Oct 12 21:10:54 Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 171 Number of spams :36 ( 21.05%) Number of clean messages: 135 ( 78.95%) Average me