Re: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-08 Thread Mariano Absatz
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:36:55 -0700, Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It had to happen, I suppose. This morning I received a 996 KB message > advertising, as near as I can tell, some Taiwanese take-out restaurant. > And by Taiwanese, I don't mean style of cooking, but *location*. > (Yeah, next

Re: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-07 Thread Nix
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, David B. Funk mused: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Nix wrote: > >> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, David B. Funk stated: >> > If you -know- that the non-binary part is small/moderate, throw it at >> > SA anyway. SA is programmed to skip over binary parts and not even try to >> > scan their content

Re: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Nix wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, David B. Funk stated: > > If you -know- that the non-binary part is small/moderate, throw it at > > SA anyway. SA is programmed to skip over binary parts and not even try to > > scan their contents, so no loss of speed. > > Rawbody rules still a

Re: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-06 Thread Loren Wilton
> > If you -know- that the non-binary part is small/moderate, throw it at > > SA anyway. SA is programmed to skip over binary parts and not even try to > > scan their contents, so no loss of speed. > > Rawbody rules still apply to them, don't they? That was my point. No, I don't believe so. At le

Re: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-06 Thread Nix
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, David B. Funk stated: > If you -know- that the non-binary part is small/moderate, throw it at > SA anyway. SA is programmed to skip over binary parts and not even try to > scan their contents, so no loss of speed. Rawbody rules still apply to them, don't they? That was my point

RE: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-04 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 Kelson Vibber wrote: > It had to happen, I suppose. This morning I received a 996 KB message > advertising, as near as I can tell, some Taiwanese take-out restaurant. > And by Taiwanese, I don't mean style of cooking, but *location*. > (Yeah, next time I go to lunch I'm defin

Re: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-03 Thread Nix
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] yowled: > So I'm wondering - any ideas on dealing with giant-attachment spam? How many of SA's rules run over non-textual attachments? (rawbody rules, I guess... there are only 41 of those. Not many.) It might be worthwhile arranging to have two limits, one

RE: 1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-02 Thread jburzenski
Title: RE: 1-Megabyte Spam I doubt it will become cost effective for main stream spammers to send such large messages in the near future.  Spammers return on a million messages is usually fairly infinitesimal and the cost of sending a million 1MB messages using hijacked home machines or

1-Megabyte Spam

2004-09-01 Thread Kelson
It had to happen, I suppose. This morning I received a 996 KB message advertising, as near as I can tell, some Taiwanese take-out restaurant. And by Taiwanese, I don't mean style of cooking, but *location*. (Yeah, next time I go to lunch I'm definitely going to hop on a plane, fly halfway aro