Secret agent spam

[Doc Schneider]

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James Gray wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 05:05 am, Fractal IT Dept. wrote:
>
>>Hey anti-spam warriors,
>>
>>We're starting to see a bunch of spam somehow getting by the assassins,
>>past the razor wire, around the blackholes, and so forth.
>>
>>Our only clue is the following message:
>>
>>    not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 5,
>>        autolearn=not spam)
>>
>>This was clearly one of the spammiest (is that a word?) emails I've seen
>>in ages. In fact, I might even order the product they're offering if
>>it's half as amazing as they say it is. I would have new career options
>>in the *ahem* entertainment industry for sure. :-)
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>
>
> In these sorts of cases I normally feed them back into the bayes engine and
> tell it to learn them as spam.  You might have to unlearn them first seeing
> as they have been auto-learnt as ham.
>
> Other than that; save a copy and forward it here with full headers etc, (or
> put it on a website somewhere) so we can have a look and see if there is some
> sort of counter-attack (with a Howitzer[1]) we can lauch ;)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer

Or I can turn the SARE Ninjas loose on it! Just let us know and we can
send out the LARTS!

-Doc (SA/SARE/URIBL/SURBL - Ninja)

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