Re: A change in tact

2004-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 04:48 am, Rakesh wrote: > Well even i think that has to be the final resort, but one thing wanted > to know. How much of similar kind of mails are you guys recieving ? Is > it just the begining or are we already in the middle of it. > > Rakesh Beginning and Middle imp

Re: A change in tact

2004-12-16 Thread Rakesh
Brett Cove wrote: I've noticed much of the spam containing geocities urls contain a query string at the end. Example: www.geocities.com/giovanni_campos_42/?s=lexi&m=ZVQcj.RhhQfY,hVX Is this something that occurs often in 'non-spam' geocities links? I have even recieved spam without the querystri

Re: A change in tact

2004-12-16 Thread Brett Cove
Chris Santerre wrote: [snip] I've been given a small corpa of this kind of spam. I'm trugging thru it slowly. But I think I might be able to come up with a SA rule for it. Not sure yet. I've noticed much of the spam containing geocities urls contain a query string at the end. Example: www.geocit

RE: A change in tact

2004-12-15 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Rakesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 5:38 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: A change in tact > > >Hii > >I am using Spamassassin with URI, Razor and DCC checks to catch spams. >After implementing URI checks my life h

Re: A change in tact

2004-12-15 Thread Rakesh
Rob McEwen wrote: Final thought: If these additional avenues don't produce results with a few weeks, I am going to send ALL of my clients an e-mail explaining the situation to them and telling them: "Geocities cannot seem to police their kiddie pron spamming to a reasonable extent and, therefore, a

RE: A change in tact

2004-12-15 Thread Rob McEwen
> So the question is how do we tackle this scenario. Either we blacklist > free hosting sites like geocities.com in SURBL and get false positives, > or > ...So how do we tackle this ? My experience with Geocities is that: (1) It often takes them one or two full business days to get a kiddie p

Re: A change in tact

2004-12-15 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, December 15, 2004, 2:37:57 AM, Rakesh Rakesh wrote: > So the question is how do we tackle this scenario. Either we blacklist > free hosting sites like geocities.com in SURBL and get false positives, > or we make a humble request to these free webhosting companies to stop > new registr