Spammers circumvent MS

[Donovan Huff | HUFF DATA SYSTEMS]

If I was an intelligent SPAMMER *laugh*, I could just run the SPAM I intended to send out thru MailScanner w/ SA and make sure that
it scored low enough to get thru and if it didn't, then modify it till it did.  This is likely why a lot of the SPAM recently seems
to be going more towards the plain text side with a simple web link.  That makes me think, maybe there needs to be a new BL that has
domains/IPs/IP ranges/URLs in it and matches them if in e-mails, I'm not aware of anything that does this now.


Regards,

Donovan Huff
Owner/Operator
HUFF DATA SYSTEMS
donovan at huffdatasystems.com
http://www.huffdatasystems.com/
(361) 781-0631

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Dijkxhoorn" <raymond at PROLOCATION.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: Spammers circumvent MS


> Hi!
>
> > Repeat the lines containing "IsEcsList2" as many times as are necessary for
> > the number of regular expressions you need to create to match all your
> > company-wide mailing lists. We intentionally made them all end in "-foo" so
> > that this could be done more easily.
> >
> > Okay, so maybe this isn't "very easy" like I said at the top, but it sure
> > works. No-one outside can spam our internal lists. Anyone on the inside
> > doing it gets dropped from a great height.
>
> Or run them on descent mailinglist software... and make them member post
> only :)
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.