Spammers circumvent MS

[Donovan Huff | HUFF DATA SYSTEMS]

Julian,

When I said in e-mails, I mean in the body of the e-mail, kind of like how SpamAssassin works, but think a dynamic rule set that
could be pulled from a server/etc, kind of like antivirus signatures.

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: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Spammers circumvent MS


> At 11:16 10/05/2003, you wrote:
> >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.
>
> This is what people like Spamhaus try to do. They target known spammers
> rather than open relays.
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