New SPAM e-mails recently?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 08:28:21 GMT 2006


On 10/11/06, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
(snip)
> I've now checked mine too. Yesterday I got 340, where all but one was
> marked as spam (7 were low-scoring, the rest high). The rules that did
> it for me was Bayes, Razor, TVD_STOCK1, DIGEST_MULTIPLE, DCC, a slew
> of BLs (SORBS_DUL etc etc), HELO_DYNAMIC_* and SPF_NEUTRAL ... and
> then some.
>
> So, for me these haven't really been a problem (Postfix and all:-).
>
> Note that I don't run the SARE stocks rules, else those would likely
> have made an impact too.
>
> And finally, my gut reaction ("they're probably images") was plain
> wrong. Aren't statistics wonderful:-).
>
BTW, there seems to be a variation where the subject is "hi xxx.xxx"
(xxx.xxx == the user part of the email address) that hit pretty much
the same rules. Had about 200 of those yesterday (yesterday was an
all-time-high for spam (and caught spam) here:-).

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-- Glenn
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