Giampaolo Tomassoni writes:
> > -----Messaggio originale-----
> > Da: Chris St. Pierre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
> > 
> > > By "black-listing" URI's host IPs, one could easily score high this
> > kind of
> > > e-mails. Maybe there is also some RBL regarding web hosts, by the
> > way. Is
> > > it?
> > 
> > You mean URIBL?  Not only does it exist, it's included with SA.  If
> > the URIBL_* family of rules aren't among your top 5 most effective,
> > something is seriously wrong with your SA installation.
> 
> No, not URIBL: that would detect the URI (which always changes). I mean some
> RBL thing which enlists suspicious web host IP address, since the IP address
> of this spammer is always the same.
> 
> One could alternatively have a similar check on the authoritative DNS
> server(s) for the URI's domain: this too is always the same.
> 
> A SA plugin which lets me score messages containing URI resolving to
> suspicious web hosts and/or authoritative name servers would suffice. Being
> out there even some RBL service about suspicious web hosts IP addresses
> and/or the IP address of suspicious authoritative name servers would be
> great for to stop him/she...

The URIBL_SBL rule does this, looking up IPs of hosts against SBL. It's
actually been part of SpamAssassin since before SURBL and URIBL were
created, I think ;)

--j.

> > FWIW, the OP's message scored 31.3 on my system, as it hit Razor2 and
> > two URIBL rules (the scores for which I crank up).
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems I often get this crap before many others do.
> Thereby, there is no Razor or Pyzor or DCC report about it. Sometimes there
> is a URIBL report, however, which, helped by Bayes, rises the score to high
> enough to mark it as "[SPAM?]". Not enough to be discarded, anyway.
> 
> 
> > Chris St. Pierre
> > Unix Systems Administrator
> > Nebraska Wesleyan University
> > ----------------------------
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