Porn msg identification?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Apr 8 08:47:33 IST 2003


At 01:48 08/04/2003, you wrote:
>Hmmm...  I don't think that will satisfy my customers.
>
>The problem is the language as well as the images contained within porn
>spam.
>
>The issue with setting the scores very high is that some customers will
>want to receive "adult" emails while others don't want to receive any.

Which is why you can set the spam high score using a ruleset so that
different users get different scoring thresholds.

>If there was a generic way to build a ruleset to modify the subject line
>(or add/modify a header), that would probably take care of it! :)
>
>Any chance something like this could be in MailScanner's future? *hint
>hint*  ;)
>
>-Rich
>
>On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > The problem of nasty porn spam can largely be solved with the "striphtml"
> > spam action, as it removes all images from spam. In case it's not really
> > spam, all the links in the message are maintained, but you don't have to
> > suffer the images. This is keeping most of my users happy here.
> >
> > At 18:10 07/04/2003, you wrote:
> > >Hi there!
> > >
> > >I was wondering if anyone had come up with a way to add a header or
> > >perhaps prepend the subject line with something like {Porn?} based on the
> > >language/content of an email?
> > >
> > >I want to be able to give our users something they can filter their mail
> > >against if they don't want to receive ANY adult messages.
> > >
> > >Our customers like the ability to filter against {Spam?} in the subject
> > >line for possible spam.
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >
> > >-Rich
> >
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