Re: feed spamassassin with a catch-all address

2015-12-16 Thread Alex
Hi, >> This type of honeypot can find numerous bad actors and identify >> dictionary attackers. It has excellent merit and many people use this >> type of data. You might find it useful for blocking IPs, finding bad >> URLs, identifying spam for bayes, etc. > > easy to kill legit/ESP bulk and us

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2015-12-16 14:21 -0800, jdow wrote: > One thing worth pointing out is if this CAN be done refusing to do it > yourself is a shallow gesture. No, it is not. Refusing to take part in what you believe is wrong, even if you know the wrong will be done eventually because the Zeitgeist favors it, i

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread jdow
On 2015-12-16 14:15, Wrolf wrote: Video/audio/stills are a problem. How about crowd sourcing ISIS identification, with sufficient votes (of sufficient reputation) leading to RBL style blocking by IP address, and retroactive elimination of posts spread across all media? BTW, I am aware that Face

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Wrolf
Video/audio/stills are a problem. How about crowd sourcing ISIS identification, with sufficient votes (of sufficient reputation) leading to RBL style blocking by IP address, and retroactive elimination of posts spread across all media? BTW, I am aware that Facebook has programmers. They seem not

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 16 Dec 2015, at 13:39, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Bill Cole wrote: ISIS uses any "social media" where the proprietors welcome them. That is a business decision of for-profit private enterprises based in lightly-regulated jurisdictions (mostly the US and EU) who mostly have no

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:28 PM +0100 Mark Martinec wrote: Tried it now with 3.4.1 and Net::DNS 1.04. You still need to apply the patch from Bug 7223 (in addition to a patch from Bug 7231), then it passes all tests with Net::DNS 1.04 (even without patches from Bug 7265). Seems easi

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Jered Floyd
Wrolf, Facebook (et al.) already have extremely powerful engines and many engineers working on anti-spam/anti-fraud technologies. They're quite good at keeping most of the spam out of your Timeline. They don't need "our" help. The same techniques could plausibly be used to block ISIS propagan

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Bill Cole wrote: ISIS uses any "social media" where the proprietors welcome them. That is a business decision of for-profit private enterprises based in lightly-regulated jurisdictions (mostly the US and EU) who mostly have not thought about that choice in those terms. T

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Wrolf
Thanks Bill. I guess I should restate my question. Would it be practical for Twitter/Facebook/SnapChat/WhatsApp/Microsoft/Telegraph to use SpamAssassin like techniques of Bayesian filtering and RBL lists to block ISIS on social media? This is an invitation for discussion, not a rhetorical questio

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Dec 2015, at 23:19, Wrolf wrote: Stop me if you've heard this one. Would it be practical to use the Spamassassin techniques of Bayesian filtering and RBL lists to block ISIS on social media? I've definitely heard similarly unfunny and poorly thought-out jokes before. Bill Gates had one

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Mark Martinec
Not sure about SPF. It's supposed to be fixed in the current 3.4 branch and in trunk, which is why I'm not seeing a problem with Net::DNS 1.03 or Net::DNS 1.04. Will check how the released version of 3.4.1 fares with Net::DNS 1.04 regarding SPF. The emergency patches were applied to FreeBSD ports,

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 4:13 PM + Ian Eiloart wrote: On 16 Dec 2015, at 16:09, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.12.2015 um 17:00 schrieb Ian Eiloart: On 16 Dec 2015, at 15:30, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Downgrade tour netdns. There were changes in 1.03 that are fixed in trunk.

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Mark Martinec
Ian Eiloart wrote: I had this problem after upgrading from a rather old version of SA. After upgrading to Net::DNS 1.04, the errors aren’t logged, but SpamAssassin isn’t finding SPF records. I wonder whether anyone can offer any suggestions. [...] Yesterday, I upgraded Net::DNS 1.03 to Net::D

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 12/16/2015 11:00 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: On 16 Dec 2015, at 15:30, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Downgrade tour netdns. There were changes in 1.03 that are fixed in trunk. Regards, KAM Downgrade? I upgraded to 1.04: does that not fix the problem? Are you running 3.4.1 or trunk? If trunk, 1.04 mig

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Kevin Golding
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:13:03 -, Ian Eiloart wrote: On 16 Dec 2015, at 16:09, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.12.2015 um 17:00 schrieb Ian Eiloart: On 16 Dec 2015, at 15:30, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Downgrade tour netdns. There were changes in 1.03 that are fixed in trunk. Regards, K

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Ian Eiloart
> On 16 Dec 2015, at 16:09, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 16.12.2015 um 17:00 schrieb Ian Eiloart: >> >>> On 16 Dec 2015, at 15:30, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >>> >>> Downgrade tour netdns. There were changes in 1.03 that are fixed in trunk. >>> Regards, >>> KAM >> >> Downgrade? I upgraded

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.2015 um 17:00 schrieb Ian Eiloart: On 16 Dec 2015, at 15:30, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Downgrade tour netdns. There were changes in 1.03 that are fixed in trunk. Regards, KAM Downgrade? I upgraded to 1.04: does that not fix the problem? you answered that question at your own by o

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Ian Eiloart
> On 16 Dec 2015, at 15:30, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > Downgrade tour netdns. There were changes in 1.03 that are fixed in trunk. > Regards, > KAM Downgrade? I upgraded to 1.04: does that not fix the problem? -- Ian Eiloart Postmaster, University of Sussex +44 (0) 1273 87-3148

Re: feed spamassassin with a catch-all address

2015-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Shawn Bakhtiar: On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.12.2015 um 23:25 schrieb Juerg Reimann: I have a domain which gets a lot of spam to non-existent addresses. I thought why not set that domain to catch-all and feed all non-existent addresse

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Downgrade tour netdns. There were changes in 1.03 that are fixed in trunk. Regards, KAM On December 16, 2015 9:49:38 AM EST, Ian Eiloart wrote: >Hi, > >I had this problem after upgrading from a rather old version of SA. >After upgrading to Net::DNS 1.04, the errors aren’t logged, but >SpamAssass

Re: DNS lookups fail with SpamAssassin since Net::DNS 1.03

2015-12-16 Thread Ian Eiloart
Hi, I had this problem after upgrading from a rather old version of SA. After upgrading to Net::DNS 1.04, the errors aren’t logged, but SpamAssassin isn’t finding SPF records. I wonder whether anyone can offer any suggestions. I’m calling spamd from Exim. /opt/local/bin/spamd --version Spa

Re: feed spamassassin with a catch-all address

2015-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.12.2015 um 23:25 schrieb Juerg Reimann: I have a domain which gets a lot of spam to non-existent addresses. I thought why not set that domain to catch-all and feed all non-existent addresses directly to spamassassin. Any thoughts why this could be a bad idea? Of course any typos from real