Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:32:06 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > jd wrote: > >> A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong > >> command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to > >> Hollywood. It seems that Hollyw

MTX plugin created (Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage)

2010-02-10 Thread Darxus
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Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to Hollywood. >>> >>>No ageism here please :-) - a lot people will believe all kinds o

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Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: Electronics generating sparks when overloaded? Yes. Generating smoke? Yes. Flames? Yes. A dynamic explosion? No. (Never did figure out why all the electronics consoles in movies seem to contain explosives...) Self-destruct mechanism, obviously! :) P

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Mark Martinec wrote: On Wednesday February 10 2010 10:45:37 Mike Cardwell wrote: On 10/02/2010 00:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: MISSING_SUBJECT, Now, why the message that SA is creating is getting TWO Subject: lines is a different question. because SA thinks it's got no subject, so it adds one as i

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Per Jessen
Gene Heskett wrote: >>> A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong >>> command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to >>> Hollywood. >> >>No ageism here please :-) - a lot people will believe all kinds of >>things about PCs. >> >> >>/Per Jessen, Zürich >> >

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: jd wrote: A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to Hollywood. It seems that Hollywood is still doing that. Electronics generating sparks when overloaded? Yes. G

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: >jd wrote: >> Kurt Buff さんは書きました: >>> Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier >>> description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This >>> probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about >>> compute

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: >jd wrote: >> A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong >> command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to >> Hollywood. It seems that Hollywood is still doing that. > >Electronics generating sparks when ove

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: >Quoting jd : >> Kurt Buff さんは書きました: >>> Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier >>> description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This >>> probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are abou

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:46 -0500 Bowie Bailey wrote: > jd wrote: > > A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong > > command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to > > Hollywood. It seems that Hollywood is still doing that. > > > > Electronics generat

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
jd wrote: Kurt Buff さんは書きました: Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about computers, and set in his/her ways. This, augmented by scare stories in t

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:56:49 -0800: MISSING_SUBJECT, Now, why the message that SA is creating is getting TWO Subject: lines is a different question. because SA thinks it's got no subject, so it adds one as it is instructed to tag the subject. Ob

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:58:01 -0800: Our SA installation is correctly tagging this as spam and sending it forward to the user. Well, the usual procedure (*) is to add headers that identify the message as spam and maybe even show the score, so users c

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Per Jessen
jd wrote: > Kurt Buff さんは書きました: >> >> Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier >> description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This >> probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about >> computers, and set in his/her ways. This, augmented by sc

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
jd wrote: > A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong > command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to > Hollywood. It seems that Hollywood is still doing that. > Electronics generating sparks when overloaded? Yes. Generating smoke? Yes. Flames? Ye

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread terry
Quoting jd : Kurt Buff さんは書きました: Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about computers, and set in his/her ways. This, augmented by scare storie

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Mike Cardwell wrote: On 10/02/2010 00:04, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Thunderbird only displays the SECOND subject line. So Thunderbird displays the last Subject line header it comes across. Is that incorrect behaviour for an MUA? I think it is. Setting aside the question of whether they are sup

OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread jd
Kurt Buff さんは書きました: > > Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier > description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This > probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about > computers, and set in his/her ways. This, augmented by scare stories > in t

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 15:44 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: if I load it up in vi then vi claims there is a single blank space after the colon. It would be better to use od or beav rather than vi - both use unambiguous notation for non-printable bytes. beav (if you have i

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Martinec
On Wednesday February 10 2010 10:45:37 Mike Cardwell wrote: > On 10/02/2010 00:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> MISSING_SUBJECT, > >> > >> Now, why the message that SA is creating is getting TWO Subject: lines > >> is a different question. > > > > because SA thinks it's got no subject, so it adds one a

Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-10 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On 2010-02-09 22:31, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: [Ideas for a new scheme similar to a subset of SPF.] I don't think the SpamAssassin users list is the right place to discuss a new generasl scheme like this, but here goes anyway. Please not that the comments below is just a first reaction. I

Re: spamassassin /etc/shadow access

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Martinec
On Wednesday February 10 2010 07:11:57 Tóth Attila wrote: > Sorry for bringing up this topic again. It was previously discussed in > 2006: http://markmail.org/message/76w27on2gf44262g > > I still don't see an established reason why spamassassin should tamper > with shadow. From 2006: "Doesn't do a

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:51 -0800, jdow wrote: > And for the type of applications he wants his best bet is Windows, > sadly enough. And, predictably, he's infected. He and I are paranoid > different ways. I am rather careful about my browsing and my system's > still clean. I got nailed ONCE so far

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 10/02/2010 00:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: MISSING_SUBJECT, Now, why the message that SA is creating is getting TWO Subject: lines is a different question. because SA thinks it's got no subject, so it adds one as it is instructed to tag the subject. Obviously, it wants to see at least a white

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-10 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 10/02/2010 00:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Our SA installation is correctly tagging this as spam and sending it forward to the user. Well, the usual procedure (*) is to add headers that identify the message as spam and maybe even show the score, so users can have the mail client file it to junk.