At Mon Dec 15 15:12:42 2003, Gary Smith wrote: > > Rubin, > > About a week ago a guy asked how to use SA to check the emails > before he sent them for some mail list (or some private promo > thing). I think that problem is that spammers themselves are > starting to use product like SA to validate if an email is spam or > not so they can fool the system. I don't think there is a clear and > easy way to stop them if they are using the same tools. Just my > $0.02.
The spammer might be able to run his *content* through SA, but he still has to use some spamming tool (which SA might identify), and send mail out through servers which might be in one or more RBLs. In addition, the spammer has no idea what might be in your Bayes database, and can't deal with that other than by brute force which might still not work. On top of that, there's Razor, pyzor, DCC to cope with. Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
