Greetings!
It will take a few days for me to get the 'flow' of this list, and the
sense of any threads already in progress. So I apologize if my query
has been recently discussed/resolved. Do we have a searchable archive
somewhere on the web?
First the good news: I got rid of my horrible old servers, and in December
upgraded to the latest and greatest spamassassin. And all my users were
VERY happy. Spam dropped off to almost nothing. My greatest thanks to the
authors of this marvelous system. :)
The only spam that I saw any significant level of were some overseas
lottery spams, and I was able to construct some custom rules to weigh them
down. :)
But within the last two weeks I have seen an increase of spams of the
'classic' drug and inheritance variety, most of them sparse on wording,
so that they do not score too high on their content, and many of them
interestingly enough, listing geo-cities web sites. It makes me wonder if
something has gone 'wrong' or 'slowed' with respect to the URIBL tests?
Or do those tests 'skip' public hosting sites like geo-cities?
Or is this a 'tip of the iceberg' thing, with spamassassin still catching
the usual percentage, but the overall volume spiking?
- Charles, HWCN
