idea for next version

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At 09:34 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote:


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> > Sent: October 10, 2006 6:19 PM
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: Re: idea for next version
> >
>
> > Actually, this suggestion isn't very new. It's been made dozens of times
> > over on
> > the SpamAssassin list. It really doesn't work out in the general case.
> >
> > Unfortunately, for most folks it's not as dramatic as 95/5.. and even for
> > those
> > it is, that's still a relatively poor spam rule.>
>
> > Quite frankly, geographic origin is a whole lot more accurate, and even
> > that
> > pretty well sucks. You might consider taking advantage of the RelayCountry
> > plugin, and adding some rules like these (adjust scores, etc for your own
> > geography:)
>
>I sometimes envy those of you out there that can filter based on 
>time, origin, relay, language, and other such features.  I'm sure it 
>cuts down on your spam quite a bit.
>
>Unfortunately for me, my incoming mail servers handle mail for time 
>zones ranging from +10 to -8; including major offices in China and 
>Eastern Europe.
>
>Suffice it to say that we process /a lot/ of legitimate mail that 
>would probably otherwise be blocked by many mail servers which are 
>English-speaking North American centric.
>

I tend to agree. Our firm could have utilized that sort of filtering 
two to three years ago. But now, not at all.

Notice that a lot of what us North Americans used to receive in spam 
from hosts in China are now arriving from Botnets on North American 
and Mexican machines.

That has changed the arrival time of the spam as well as the origin.

Cheers!