Couple lines of spam

Max Kipness max at kipness.com
Thu Sep 29 18:13:33 IST 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:25 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Couple lines of spam
> 
> On 28/09/05, Max Kipness <max at kipness.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  I have Bayes, SA rules du jour, a couple of black hole lists, DCC and
> > Razor2 configured and working, and these catch over 10k of spam a day.
> >
> >
> >
> > However, lately, I've been getting quite a few pieces of spam that are a
> > couple of lines long, sometimes with misspelled words, and a link. Bayes
> > picks them up as 100%, but nothing else does, so they are not considered
> > spam.
> >
> >
> >
> > What is the best method for catching these? Higher score on bayes (which
> > means the db has to be very accurate), add more black hole lists, more
> SA
> > rules, or is there some other method of catching these?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Max
> >
> Depends... Probably custon SA rule(s). Geocities or msn?

These few sentences spam come from various domains.

So you mean create custom rules based on the contents of these particular
emails? 

Thanks,
Max

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