A sudden increase in drug spam emails

Anthony Peacock a.peacock at CHIME.UCL.AC.UK
Tue Sep 27 09:00:34 IST 2005


Hi,

> Since one week there has been a sudden increase in spam emails on our
> server. Most of them have the geocities.com URL. They all seem to be
> related to some drugs.
> 
> Are there any new rules to add to stop this sudden flood of spams?

This issue has  been discussed on the SpamAssassin mailing list in 
the past, links to the list archives can be found here:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists

I am using the following rule, which I got from the discussions on 
the list.

# Based on rules posted on users at spamassassin.apache.org
#
uri          CHIME_URL_GEOC          /\buk\.geocities\.com\b/i
describe CHIME_URL_GEOC          High amounts of spam from Geocities.
score     CHIME_URL_GEOC          1.0


-- 
Anthony Peacock       
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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