Skilled spammers

[Mike Kercher]

Are you using any of the dnsbl's?  I use spamcop, osirusoft and ordb and very few sneak through.  I use the dns zones at the MTA and
not in SA/MS

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Bruno Melloni
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:38 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Skilled spammers


MailScanner + SpamAssassin is very effective at blocking my spam (I use the SA default of 5 rather
than the recommended 9 - I pretty much don't get false positives so 5 is fine for me).  But even with
such a tight level of control there is a small number (bellnexia, junum, qves, equalamail,
specialfunoffers, kali) of frequent-spammers that tweak their junk in a way that they usually get
tagged below 5 (typically around 4.6).  These spammers also heavily fake their header information,
so that blacklisting them took several tries and I ended up having to do it by blocking their subnets.

What(where?) is the best way to report these spammers so that they will be intercepted by future
Mailscanner and SpamAssassin releases?

Bruno