Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread James Butler
Charles Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, James Butler wrote: >> . Gibberish in the form is just a probe. > > My experience has been that the gibberish gets around simplistic tests > for 'empty' fields. That's why I advocate the use of a field that > *

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread James Butler
Jason Bertoch wrote: > On 1/29/2010 12:44 PM, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: >> >> Really, I was just trying to figure out what the point would be for >> someone to fill out the form with obviously invalid data. >> > > My guess is that it's a spammer's bot looking for a broken web form to > abuse. > M

Re: Project Honeypot URLs

2009-12-16 Thread James Butler
laying the Klingons) on the mainframe side. The game ended up being installed on HP calculators, where it undoubtedly played better than during our mainframe sessions. Talk about network latency! Fire a photon torpedo and wait about 5 minutes to find out if you hit anything. Good times. Sorry about the sidetrack ... carry on! James Butler

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread James Butler
Oh yes ... there's no denying its complexity. But the desire to use one's native tongue is quite simple. James Butler Pete McNeil wrote: > James Butler wrote: >> We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic >> domain names over the past seve

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread James Butler
We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic domain names over the past several years. Don't underestimate the backlash against everything being in English for so long ... there are hordes (sorry) of folks who want to be able to use their native charactersets. Ja

Re: spamc: oops! message_dump

2009-04-17 Thread James Butler
James Butler wrote: > System: Fedora 10, Spamassassin 3.2.5, Perl 5.10.0 > > The following error is preceded by log entry: > spamc[PID]: skipped message, greater than max message size (512000 bytes) > > Error: spamc[PID]: oops! message_dump of 8192 returned different > (there

spamc: oops! message_dump

2009-04-16 Thread James Butler
System: Fedora 10, Spamassassin 3.2.5, Perl 5.10.0 The following error is preceded by log entry: spamc[PID]: skipped message, greater than max message size (512000 bytes) Error: spamc[PID]: oops! message_dump of 8192 returned different (there are as many of those errors as it takes to reach the f

Re: I hate Spam Assassin, don't know how it got on my computer anddesperately need to get rid of it

2008-10-28 Thread James Butler
ages that are similar in content to the ones that caused the condition in the first place. James Butler Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter Chairman of the Board [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/28/08 at 1:29 PM Corbie Mitleid/Fire Through Spirit wrote: >

Re: I hate Spam Assassin, don't know how it got on my computeranddesperately need to get rid of it

2008-10-28 Thread James Butler
I stand corrected. I guess I should have said that *I* don't use SpamAssassin for outgoing email. :) James Butler Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter Chairman of the Board [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/28/08 at 12:32 PM Larry Nedry wrote: >On 10/

Re: I hate Spam Assassin, don't know how it got on my computer anddesperately need to get rid of it

2008-10-28 Thread James Butler
oblem. This issue is probably unrelated to the discussions found on this list, and we would require data that you are unlikely able to provide, so continuing to ask users here will likely only increase your frustration. James Butler Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter Chairman

Re: how to gt email by spam assasim market as ***spam*** into spamfolder

2008-09-08 Thread James Butler
>qsch wrote: >> Hi I am using cpanel and I was wondering how to configure my email which >is >> horde to sent email marked as spam into spam folder. I am not sure if I >have >> to use and create a filter. I tried it but it didn't work. Thank You >> >If no one here's able to answer you, you may want

Re: Score ends up below fixed value?

2006-12-01 Thread James Butler
Unbelievably, I haven't gotten any stock spams since that last one! I'll reply with the SA headers when I get another one ... yeesh. Thanks for the reply, tho'. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/1/06 at 2:49 PM Evan Platt wrote: >At 02:44 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote: >>I've got a simp

Score ends up below fixed value?

2006-12-01 Thread James Butler
I've got a simple rule that checks for "favorite financial institution site" in the message body. I've assigned that rule a default score of 10.0, however when the message arrives in my spam trap, the SA score is 7.5, high enough to get it into the spam trap, but clearly below 10.0. What's up w

Re: I'm thinking about suing Microsoft

2006-10-23 Thread James Butler
Holding the position of "most widely-attacked" is no reason for it to also be "least secure-due-to-widely-known-and-poorly-corrected-issues". Even if Apple/Posix products were as "widely attacked" as Windows products, the results would be far less damaging to the global infrastructure, despite P

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread James Butler
Just trying to help ... Sincerest regards, James Butler Chairman, Board of Directors Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter California, USA *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/2/06 at 4:15 PM Ken A wrote: >jdow wrote: >> From: "Ken A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread James Butler
nd a couple he came into the project with, re: Microsoft). We can presume that his "masters" include the almighty dollar and low-hanging fruit. Oops ... I may be a fsking idiot ... sorry. Sincerest regards, James Butler Chairman, Board of Directors Internet Society - Los A

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread James Butler
LOL! Thanks for the reminder. Best of luck in your efforts to "stop SPAM" around the world. Sincerest regards, James Butler Chairman, Board of Directors Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter California, USA *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/1/06 at 11:29 PM jdow w

Re: FSCKED UP MAIL BOUNCES FROM THIS LIST

2006-07-21 Thread James Butler
On 7/21/06 at 3:04 PM Evan Platt wrote: >At 03:01 PM 7/21/2006, you wrote: >>Hey guys, the Apache email system is hosed. >> >>It has bounced two recent emails, one because it supposedly already had >>list headers on it, which as it went out of here it did not. The other >>had the system's spamassa

Getting spammed/attacked via this list?

2006-07-17 Thread James Butler
Hi. I'm getting Snort alerts that describe "Attempted specific command buffer overflow: MAIL FROM:, 346 chars" via this list. The typical message contains a software pitch included in the headers like this: begin X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (asf.osuosl.org: local p

RE: Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread James Butler
Eliminating spam is not really an option unless you are willing to toss out anything valuable that SA might catch by accident. The plan is to *manage* spam. We pipe spam to a separate mailbox just for that purpose, and then check that mailbox every so often to (a) loosen rules that are catching