Spam slipping through

[Scott Silva]

Glenn Steen spake the following on 1/23/2007 1:38 AM:
> On 22/01/07, Ken A <ka at pacific.net> wrote:
>> Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> >> I'm not sure if this is a MailScanner problem or a SpamAssassin
>> problem,
>> >> but someone here will at least be able to help me narrow it down. 
>> I am
>> >> running MailScanner 4.57.6 on Suse Linux 10.1.  My MTA is Postfix
>> 2.3.6
>> >> and I'm running SpamAssassin 3.1.7.
>> >
>> > So you need more rules. Or make own rules. Spammers are getting
>> smarter,
>> > so also you need to do more ;)
>>
>> Yeah, I'm finding myself spending more time adding and removing local
>> rules than I'd like. Rules_du_jour and sa-update are good for trends in
>> spam, and Bayes, Razor and DCC are helpful, but these blasts of easy to
>> catch spam that don't hit many rules are a real PITA.
>>
>> Spammers are succeeding when they can hit you hard and fast with some
>> simple ascii and bayes poisoning junk. If you don't have a rule in place
>> pretty quickly, you can see quite a few go through...
> 
> We can be fairly certain they've become more proficient at using SA on
> their own spam to ensure ti doesn't trigegr a truckload of rules, yes.
> Unfortunately this means we can't avoid this "local temporary rules"
> work. Sigh.
> 
>> My approach is to make adding and removing rules as easy as possible, so
>> that if I get a few "Re: now ..." in the subject (todays' flavor), I can
>> quickly block them.
>>
>> It still requires some banging on the keyboard. No point and click or
>> telepathic solutions yet.. (patent pending...) .. heh heh..
> UCEdetection by ESP... What a concept:-). Looking forward to the first
> beta;-).
> 
But the beta will need to be hardwired. Have you seen "The Matrix"?
Looks painful... ;-D


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