At 8/27/03 11:01 AM , jherschel wrote:
Thanks for your input, though I never really gave this a second thought as
someone trying to promote a legitimate business.

Indeed, it seems to be a (black-hat) hacker forum site with a sense of humor.


I think the point to my original message has gotten lost.  Basically, this
is still spam and I'm pleading ignorance on how to tweak my rules to get
something as absurd as this tagged as spam.  For example, how what would be
the best way to drop an email with "Child Pornography" in it dropped.

I take it you want something a little better thought-out than just


body CHILD_PORN /child pornography/i
describe CHILD_PORN Mentions kiddie porn.
score CHILD_PORN 10.0

header SUBJ_CHILD_PORN Subject =~ /child pornography/i
describe SUBJ_CHILD_PORN Mentions kiddie porn.
score SUBJ_CHILD_PORN 10.0

I suppose you might also want to scan for "kiddie porn", "lolita", "underage", "barely legal", and so on. And possibly obfuscated versions of these. But I'm not really sure. Are kiddie porn peddlers actually bothering to obfuscate their catch-phrases? Heck, are they even sending out large amounts of spam? And what sorts of false positive problems are we likely to encounter, if any?

I have no idea what kiddie-porn spam looks like, since I don't spend my time reading it (if I even receive any). I'd really like to see an existing corpus of email kiddie-porn ads before trying to devise rules to stop it. Even just a couple dozen of them.

It also occurs to me that, if it's difficult to find such a corpus, then there really isn't that much of a problem. Building up a set of rules just to stop one smear attempt seems like wasted effort.

                                                --Kai MacTane
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"Wind in wings,/Two angels falling
 To die like this/With a last kiss..."
                                                --Siouxsie and the
                                                  Banshees,
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