Porn msg identification?

[Richard D Alloway]

Thanks for everyone's input for my problem, but I think the goal I am
trying to work towards is being lost in translation :)

What I think would be a great feature is to allow custom rulesets.  The
more I think about it, the more I think being able to create a customer
header for the custom ruleset would be the way to go.

I imagine it working just like the Spam Score Header.

Based on the score from the ruleset file (in my case, I'd create an adult
language file) with scores per word, a custom header could be created
which shows the "severity" of the language:

Custom Score Header = X-MailScanner-Maturity:

Custom Score Header = A

Custom Score Ruleset = /etc/MailScanner/rules/Maturity.rules

/etc/MailScanner/rules/Maturity.rules could contain:
frick   1
frack   5

Then, a message which contains the word 'frick' 3 times and 'frack' once
would have a score of 8, so a header of:
X-MailScanner-Maturity = AAAAAAAA

A customer who wishes to never receive emails with any of the words in the
list can filter on the X-MailScanner-Maturity header containing 'A'.

A customer who wishes to receive mildly mature emails can filter on the
X-MailScanner-Maturity header containing 'AAAA', and so on...

This way, the email is delivered to the customer and the customer has the
option of deleting, moving to another folder, or doing nothing with the
email.

The reason I can't use the high score action, etc is that we delete spam
with a high score.

As an ISP, we do not force adult/mature content filtering on our
customers, but would like to offer a solution that empowers the end user
to decide the level of filtering.

Thanks for hearing me out...again :)

-Rich

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> 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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