On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, lists wrote: > We use them as well, but I think the possible problem Thorsten is > thinking of, is the validity of these rule-sets in a foreign language > (i.e. German). Has anyone done any tests on this? > > Sure 95% of the spam coming to our (swiss) domains is in english > (well, if you clean up the bad english :-)) but 90% of the > "productive" mail is in german. If weeds (blackhair or whatever) is > looking for unrealistic english combinations, surely this might hit > realistic german (french, italian, etc.) combinations...
Weeds, backhair, and bigevil should be language agnostic. They check for unnecessary encoding in urls, invalid html tags, and spamvertised domains. For those, the language shouldn't matter. Chickenpox is another matter. Contractions in foreign languages may cause it false positives. We've tried to add as many of those as we know about, but there are a lot of languages out there. If you do find any problems, please report them. I don't know about the Tripwire rules, but I suspect they're aimed at English only, with possible FPs in other languages. But as I said, I don't know. Test and use at your own risk. > Is this a real problem? I don't know - it's not a problem on our > servers at least... > > John Mueller > IT Gango > > Monday, January 26, 2004, 7:16:24 PM, you wrote: > > TS> We use them all (bigevil; chicknpox; weeds; blackhair; tripwire...) and > TS> haven't looked back > > TS> Todd > TS> IT Director > > TS> -----Original Message----- > TS> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TS> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorsten > TS> Schacht > TS> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:28 AM > TS> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TS> Subject: [SAtalk] bigevil; chicknpox; weeds... > > TS> Hey, > > TS> What is your opinion to that cf's? > TS> Does it make sence to take them all, or maybe only parts of them? > TS> Is it a good solution to install them whithout realy knowing how the rules > TS> are build? > TS> Only for private or also good at company? > > TS> Best regards, > > TS> Thorsten Schacht > TS> IT-Dept. > > TS> ********* TC Works Soft- & Hardware GmbH ********* > > TS> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TS> fon: +49 40 53 10 83 0 > TS> fax: +49 40 53 10 83 1 > TS> http://www.tcelectronic.com/ > TS> Flughafenstraße 52B - 22335 Hamburg - Germany > > TS> ************* A TC Group company ***************** > > > > > TS> ------------------------------------------------------- > TS> The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > TS> Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > TS> See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > TS> http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > TS> _______________________________________________ > TS> Spamassassin-talk mailing list > TS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TS> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users. Please do not adjust your browser. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
