SEM rules pushed into production again

2011-06-27 Thread Blaine Fleming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for posting to both dev and users but it looks like the SEM lists have been pushed into production rules again and are showing up in 72_active.cf under 3.3.1. This happened around 23:00 (GMT-4) last night. Someone fix that? - --Blaine -B

Re: Spam Eating Monkey causing 100% false positives for large institutions

2011-03-23 Thread Blaine Fleming
On 3/23/2011 9:56 AM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > In the recent sa-updates, the Spam Eating Monkey rules were > inappropriately enabled. If you hit them too much, they start returning > 100% false positives. Their listed limits are "more than 100,000 queries > per day or more than 5 queries p

Re: Understanding blacklisted mail from trusted domains

2010-04-18 Thread Blaine Fleming
Alex wrote: > Why is s.twimg.com blacklisted on SEM_URI and SEM_URIRED? There was a rather painful flood of crap hitting our servers using images hosted at twimg.com. Looks like they were posting the images as profile pics and then linking directly to it on twitter's dime. This domain has drop

Re: HTML in Messages

2009-12-15 Thread Blaine Fleming
MY EYES!!11 Maybe it's time to repost the "best practices" for this list?!? --Blaine Disclaimer: This top post is the intellectual property of blah blah blah and urmom. Henrik K wrote: > > > Marc wrote: > >> Get a modern email client. Are you using a KSR33 teletype on a 110 >> baud modem

Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?

2009-11-30 Thread Blaine Fleming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Santerre wrote: > I'm just curious this morning. I see a dip in spam trapped, but a pretty > big rise in blocking. I expected a lot worse over the long holiday > weekend. Did someone get arrested or something? Since last Wednesday I show about a

Re: Spam Eating Monkey?

2009-10-09 Thread Blaine Fleming
Warren Togami wrote: > http://spameatingmonkey.com/usage.html > > Are these URI rules really valid syntax? They don't look right, and > spamassassin lint rejects them. I'm using all of those rules except for the backscatter one with no problems. They also lint fine for me. Are you watching for

Re: Harvested Fresh .cn URIBL

2009-10-07 Thread Blaine Fleming
Terry Carmen wrote: > Instead of blacklisting new domains (which is apparently difficult to > do), why not blacklist all .cn domains (or simply all domains) newer > than xxx days? > > If they're older than xxx days and not yet on another blacklist for > sending actual spam, return a neutral resp

Re: Harvested Fresh .cn URIBL

2009-10-07 Thread Blaine Fleming
Warren Togami wrote: > Opinions of this proposal? I would love to have a listing of recently registered .cn domains but until the TLD operator starts working with us that just isn't going to happen. Trying to perform a whois lookup on every domain is painfully slow. Once you get a high enough vol

Re: Spam Eating Monkey?

2009-10-06 Thread Blaine Fleming
Warren Togami wrote: > I'll add your existing rules to the Sandbox for testing. Thank you! > But have you considered putting all the DNSBL's and URIBL's into > aggregated zones so you can cut down on redundant queries? Actually, the uri red list is an aggregate zone of my uri black, red and yell

Re: Spam Eating Monkey?

2009-10-04 Thread Blaine Fleming
sschecks as > well. Since someone is bound to ask I figure I'll state right now that I have no objections to the SEM lists being included in the masschecks. In fact, I'm quite curious. I would also recommend adding AnonWhois.org to the list. - --Blaine Fleming SEM Admin http://spamea

Re: Understanding the hostKarma Lists

2009-09-30 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: > I like it. > > RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_BL > RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL > RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YL > RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_BR > > Let's go with it. Marc, have you updated your wiki to reflect the new rules? I think that will pretty well settle any debate or question people have. --Blaine

Re: Hostkarma Blacklist Climbing the Charts

2009-09-29 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: > My NoBL list is similar to yellow except that you can skip black list > lookup but maybe might be whitelisted somewhere. I keep seeing IPs that are on both the NoBL *and* the blacklist. An example of this 89.206.179.213. That IP currently returns 127.0.0.2 (blacklisted) and

Re: .cn domain age query?

2009-09-14 Thread Blaine Fleming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Let's try this again with sending to the list. Sorry Mike! Mike Cardwell wrote: > That wouldn't help in this particular case: > > "All domains registered in the last 5 days under the .BIZ, .COM, .INFO, > .NAME, .NET and .US TLDs" > > Doesn't work f

Re: workaround for DNS "search service"

2008-12-30 Thread Blaine Fleming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: >> By any chance, didn't your ISP start "providing search service" for any >> web name that does not exist? > > btw, whats the workaround for this? opendns didnt work for me as they have > similar "features". > do you

Re: Trying out a new concept

2008-09-22 Thread Blaine Fleming
John Hardin wrote: This is why I started processing all the TLDs I was able to obtain access to. There is lag but the most it could be is about 24 hours and that assumes they register a new domain immediately after the TLD dumps the zone. Does your data allow mapping domain name to registr

Re: Trying out a new concept

2008-09-22 Thread Blaine Fleming
SM wrote: Even if your traffic patterns are different, the hit rates shouldn't be that low. There would be a difference if your MTA uses a DNSBL to reject or if you apply other pre-content filtering techniques. It's not a matter of different traffic patterns as much as a matter of when I d

Re: Trying out a new concept

2008-09-22 Thread Blaine Fleming
John Hardin wrote: Why is it so flippin' difficult to get a feed of newly-registered domain names? Because the TLDs hate giving people access to the data and certainly won't provide a feed without a bunch of cash involved. Even worse, all the ccTLDs pretty much refuse to even talk to you abo

Re: More spam after disabling local BIND ?

2008-09-18 Thread Blaine Fleming
Jules Yasuna wrote: Configuration (maybe more than you care to see, sorry) -- 1) platform: kubuntu 8.04 2) SA version:3.2.4 3) options: add_header spam BB score=_SCORE_ report_safe 0 lock_method flock 4) using qmail -> procmail -> spamc -> spamd ps ea | grep spam sho

Re: rbldnsd blacklist question

2008-09-16 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: Looking from opinions from people running rbl blacklists. I have a list that contains a lot of name based information. I'm about to add a lot more information to the list and what will happen is that when you look up a name you might get several results. For example, a host

Re: New Day old Bread list trick

2008-09-15 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: Blaine Fleming wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Blaine Fleming wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: I just discovered the "Day old Bread" list of host names under 5 days old. I don't know where they get it but the list is very useful. I remember playing with this list

Re: New Day old Bread list trick

2008-09-15 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: Blaine Fleming wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: I just discovered the "Day old Bread" list of host names under 5 days old. I don't know where they get it but the list is very useful. I remember playing with this list a few years ago but now they seem to lag a

Re: New Day old Bread list trick

2008-09-15 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: I just discovered the "Day old Bread" list of host names under 5 days old. I don't know where they get it but the list is very useful. I remember playing with this list a few years ago but now they seem to lag a few days behind. For example, as of right now, 'superbleached

Re: DNS ISP Host List Available

2008-05-29 Thread Blaine Fleming
John Hardin wrote: So how is a proponent of the "Hunt down and kill spammers very messily" FUSSP classified? In the US, they would be classified as a felon. --Blaine

Re: DNS ISP Host List Available

2008-05-29 Thread Blaine Fleming
mouss wrote: are you using an old imode phone :) The message was about 125Ko. That's less than a small photo (I say this because that's what a "smartphone" is for, no?). Samsung SCH-i760 on Verizon that takes forever to download mail so when something longer than about 4k comes in it takes a

Re: DNS ISP Host List Available

2008-05-29 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: Here's my list in dnsrbl format. I only do rsync so far to paid subscribers or people who I'm trading with. Dude. Seriously. The data is appreciated but next time please post it on a website or something. Your mail pissed off my smart phone! It might not be the best dev

Day Old Bread list performance

2008-05-14 Thread Blaine Fleming
I haven't heard anything about the DOB list from Support Intelligence in several months and that was only to hear about timeouts. Is it still a viable list? Does anyone use it? I know it does still respond but I haven't used it in over a year. Back then it seemed to work well. I have acces

Re: eudora and "password"

2008-04-05 Thread Blaine Fleming
installed current win version on an xp box, using last paid version of eudora, inserted "127.0.0.1" in place of POP3 mail server as advised in manual, but eudora wants a password every time one changes a server name.and I cannot find one that works. Not really an SA issue but it is probab

Re: How many use CRM114?

2008-03-04 Thread Blaine Fleming
Marc Perkel wrote: CRM114? What's that? Can't quite figure out what it does. Is it a pony? :) CRM114 is another way to intelligently separate the spam from the ham. It is listed on the SA custom plugins page at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins . So far it works quite well

Re: Testing MD5-Sum of the Subject against a dnsbl

2008-03-03 Thread Blaine Fleming
Benny Pedersen wrote: That is a good starting point for writing a plugin to do something similar but the OP wants to hash the subject not the body. subject is part of the body Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that ixhash splits the part after the blank line (body) and hashes it u

Re: Testing MD5-Sum of the Subject against a dnsbl

2008-03-02 Thread Blaine Fleming
Oops, still trying to get used to Thunderbird and didn't post this to the list Benny Pedersen wrote: Is there a way to realise this in SA. http://ixhash.sourceforge.net/ That is a good starting point for writing a plugin to do something similar but the OP wants to hash the subject no

Re: Time to blacklist google.

2008-02-29 Thread Blaine Fleming
If gmail has a problem, then without a doubt, blacklist them until they fix it. Seems pretty simple to me. I know that the ISP's I run mail systems for would lose their customers if they stop getting mail from Google. The customer attitude is that the provider should take measures to bloc

Re: Is http://www.rulesemporium.com?

2008-02-29 Thread Blaine Fleming
I was not able to access http://www.rulesemporium.com? is this working are moved some where? Works fine from here. Site is reachable and resolves to 72.52.4.74 which pings fine as well. --Blaine

How many use CRM114?

2008-02-28 Thread Blaine Fleming
Slightly off-topic, but I'm curious, how many of you are using CRM114? How well does it work for you? Was it difficult to train? I've been looking at it and haven't found much except the official plugin guide and a single page saying that it works better than other learning methods. Any inf