On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:52:10PM -0800, William R Ward wrote:
| William R Ward writes:
| >I'm not asking for a global whitelist entry.  I'm saying that the
| >e-mail didn't have any spammish headers, and the body of the
| >message seems like an innocuous announcement to me.
| >
| >I think the problem might be because "cash" and "rich" are in the
| >body.  That in itself doesn't mean it's spam.  Can we tone down the
| >rule that is triggered by those words?
| 
| Hmm, looks like I was wrong.  It does apparently have spammish
| headers.  I don't know anything about osirusoft.com, but spamassassin
| says it's a spammer.
| 
| SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ----------------------
| SPAM: This mail is probably spam.  The original message has been altered
| SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future.
| SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.
| SPAM: 
| SPAM: Content analysis details:   (6.2 hits, 5 required)
| SPAM: Hit! (1.2 points)  From: does not include a real name
| SPAM: Hit! (2 points)    Received via a relay in relays.osirusoft.com
| SPAM:                    [RBL check: found 30.14.181.204.relays.osirusoft.com., 
|type: 127.0.0.4]
| SPAM: Hit! (3 points)    DNSBL: sender is Confirmed Spam Source
| SPAM: 
| SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results ---------------------
| 
| What does "confirmed spam source" mean in this context?  Or to put it
| another way, what does "sender" mean here?  The article has no
| "Sender:" header, and "From:" is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is not
| listed in any file in /usr/local/share/spamassassin.
| 
| If osirusoft.com is a spam relay, then what should I say to the Rich
| Dad people to convince them to not use it?

osirusoft (if you check out their web site) is a site that provides
DNS-based blacklisting of sites who are open relays or confirmed
spam sources.  The wording is confusing until you know who they are.
If you look at the Received: headers, somewhere you'll find either
204.181.14.30 or a hostname that resolves to that IP.

-D

-- 

Misfortune pursues the sinner,
but prosperity is the reward for the righteous.
        Proverbs 13:21


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