On 6-Aug-2009, at 11:28, Terry Carmen wrote:
It actually works very well with very small and very large distances.
I suppose it COULD.
Anything that I receive from an IP address located with maybe 50
miles of my
location is almost 100% guaranteed Ham. However, I've never received
even a
s
> > From your mail's Received headers, first hop, using a random service I
> > quickly googled. Your DSL (dial-up?) IP is reported to be in Cleveland,
> > Ohio. Your SMTP is in Dallas, Texas. Which one is "near" you?
>
> If you tried something with more accuracy like MaxMind.com, you would see
> "
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
>> > Sorry. But yes, I've got personal responses from pretty
>> > much *all* over the world.
>>
>> As a geek, "I" receive mail from all over the world. However as a business
>> owner, my statement holds true. My clients are clustered near me
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
> > Sorry. But yes, I've got personal responses from pretty
> > much *all* over the world.
>
> As a geek, "I" receive mail from all over the world. However as a business
> owner, my statement holds true. My clients are clustered near me.
>Fro
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:28 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
>> Anything that I receive from an IP address located with maybe 50 miles of
my location is almost 100% guaranteed Ham. However, I've never received
even a single email from China that wasn't spam.
. . .
>Sorry. But yes, I've got personal
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:28 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
> Anything that I receive from an IP address located with maybe 50 miles of my
> location is almost 100% guaranteed Ham. However, I've never received even a
> single email from China that wasn't spam.
I did. Same for almost any country you can
Terry Carmen wrote:
> Actually, I was looking at it from the other (ham) direction.
>
> Say I live in Rochester, NY. Chances are pretty good that mail I receive
> from IP addresses in or near Rochester would be ham (friends/business/etc.)
>
> Email becomes more "hammy" as it's origination point get
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:28:06 -0400
> "Terry Carmen" wrote:
>
>>
>> > Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
>> > Personally, I think you'd have just about as much success scoring 1
>> > additional point to any email originating from the US.
>>
>> It actually works very well with very small and very large dista
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:28:06 -0400
"Terry Carmen" wrote:
>
> > Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > Personally, I think you'd have just about as much success scoring 1
> > additional point to any email originating from the US.
>
> It actually works very well with very small and very large distances.
>
>
Terry Carmen wrote:
What would seem to be really useful is if spamassassin kept the geographic
coordinates for all sender IPs and created "hammy" and "spammy" area mappings
and used distance from these as a weighting factor.
enable the ASN plugin.. it will create bayes tokens.
then tr
> Kenneth Porter wrote:
>> A recent thread on spam detection suggested that geographical distance
>> from sender to recipient correlates with spam,
>
> I'm really not sure how given that the majority of spam appears to
> originate from the USA:
>
>
Kenneth Porter wrote:
A recent thread on spam detection suggested that geographical distance
from sender to recipient correlates with spam,
I'm really not sure how given that the majority of spam appears to
originate from the USA:
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso
A recent thread on spam detection suggested that geographical distance from
sender to recipient correlates with spam, and that spammers tend to cluster
geographically. Are there any plugins that can calculate these distances? I
suppose the output would be two rules (or two sets of rules, with
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