Re: backport 3.4.0 Ubuntu 12.04 TLS

2016-09-16 Thread Patrick Domack
22:02 -0400 schrieb Patrick Domack: Sounds like a lot of work for an old spamassassin version. https://launchpad.net/%7Epatrickdk/+archive/ubuntu/production/+sourcepub/5219815/+listing-archive-extra H ... do you think better backporting 3.4.1 from Xenial? Does it run on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and

Re: backport 3.4.0 Ubuntu 12.04 TLS

2016-09-15 Thread Patrick Domack
Sounds like a lot of work for an old spamassassin version. https://launchpad.net/%7Epatrickdk/+archive/ubuntu/production/+sourcepub/5219815/+listing-archive-extra Quoting Marcus Schopen : Hi, I've backported 3.4.0 from Ubuntu 14.04 TLS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (perl 5.14.2), which comes with ver

Re: Quick question about training...

2015-02-20 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Kevin Miller : When a fresh spam flood comes in, sometimes 50 or more of my users will get hit with the same message - just a different user in the To: line. When one trains the bayes database, is there a significant difference between training on all 50+ or just grabbing a few o

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-10 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Axb : On 06/10/2014 06:51 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: Quoting Axb : On 06/10/2014 05:11 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: There are all kinds of way to use the infomation. I just don't understand why people are so against it, cause it's not 100% foolproof. Nobody is agains

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-10 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Axb : On 06/10/2014 05:11 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: There are all kinds of way to use the infomation. I just don't understand why people are so against it, cause it's not 100% foolproof. Nobody is against the idea, problem is scalability and trust. To make domain age usabl

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-10 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Rob McEwen : On 6/10/2014 10:21 AM, Axb wrote: All URI BLs I know of (SURBL/URIBL/DBL/Invaluement/etc) check & track domain reputation otherwise they'd be unusable. Their listings are not blind - they all have their secret sauce to process before listing a domain. Absolutely. As Axb

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-10 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Axb : On 06/10/2014 04:14 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: Quoting Axb : On 06/10/2014 12:28 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: Not saying this doesn't happen. But also, how often does someone register a domain, move all their users to the new domain, have the server all reconfigured to use

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-10 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Axb : On 06/10/2014 12:28 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: Not saying this doesn't happen. But also, how often does someone register a domain, move all their users to the new domain, have the server all reconfigured to use this new domain, all within the first day? I know personal

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-10 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Lucio Chiappetti : On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Rob McEwen wrote: Domain age is a good metric to factor in. But I'm always fascinated with some people's desire to block all messages with extremely new domains. Keep in mind that many large and famous businesses... who have fairly good mail se

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Matthias Leisi : On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Richard Doyle wrote: A caching whois client (jwhois, for example) can significantly reduce the volume of queries. You will need to query potentially hundreds or thousands of domains *per day* - mostly throw away domains from spamme

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Matthias Leisi : On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I think the core issue is that age of domains is a good indicator of spam. So there is merit in building a distributed look-up system using SA. I have more ideas than resources, of course... I repeat my qu

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting John Hardin : On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 6/9/2014 2:51 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: So there is merit in building a distributed look-up system using SA. Distributed lookup of *what*, though? Can you clarify that part of y

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting "David F. Skoll" : On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:24:29 -0400 Patrick Domack wrote: The point was, I have already done this, and have it in production. I did this cause this subject keeps coming up from time to time, and I was personally interested to see the results of it. I

Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting "David F. Skoll" : On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:51:21 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: > So there is merit in building a distributed look-up system using SA. Distributed lookup of *what*, though? Can you clarify that part of your idea? Are you referring to distributed whois queries for a do

Re: SPAM from a registrar

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting "Kevin A. McGrail" : On 6/9/2014 2:24 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: Quoting "Kevin A. McGrail" : On 6/9/2014 1:23 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: I have been tracking this for about 2 weeks now myself. Comparing my list of new domains, shows that DOB seems to pick them

Re: SPAM from a registrar

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting "Kevin A. McGrail" : On 6/9/2014 1:23 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: I have been tracking this for about 2 weeks now myself. Comparing my list of new domains, shows that DOB seems to pick them up after they are 2 days old. I also tried to compair my list to fresh.spameating

RE: SPAM from a registrar

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick Domack
I have been tracking this for about 2 weeks now myself. Comparing my list of new domains, shows that DOB seems to pick them up after they are 2 days old. I also tried to compair my list to fresh.spameatingmonkey.net, but none of my domains in the 0-5days old would get a match for com/net