Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:42:58 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: The spam problem. |
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Good morning,
Please refrain from fights on email issues while I am asleep.. DaveM is in California, I am in Finland. About 9-10 hours time difference there. (depending on our personal rythms, also.)
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:00:46AM +0200, Dhr N. Van Alphen wrote: > cause there would be many non-members who wanna post bugs but can't because > they dont have access maybe? > > I suggest too block every email adres wich sends crap, easy done.
Consider: - Number of faked source addresses - Number of cases using somebody's address - Number of throw-away addresses - How many times they use HOTMAIL/YAHOO/EMAIL/MAIL/... addresses ?
I think I will stick to the (weakish) method of matching texts in message body (and sometimes on headers)..
I just reviewed Majordomo's BOUNCE log. It is bouncing (into oblivion) practically every posting from HOTMAIL (because of Received: header text: "from mail pickup service", which appears also in a number of looped messages..)
Over past 3 days Majordomo has trapped ONE of those money-scam letters. A lot more of various other spams have been blocked. Messages with HTML content don't make it into VGER at all, which should give a very big clue to legitimate posters making a mistake of posting such.
I am very worried of trapping too much. A bit of leakage is (to me) accptable, but similar amounts of falsely trapped ones I don't like.
I also receive so much spam directly, that I don't always detect every instance when it is leaking thru VGER's lists. If you want to raise the attention of VGERs postmasters, I suggest you forward it to:
postmaster@vger.kernel.org
with subject: "leaked spam"
Also, in case of non-english spam, I would like to receive suggestions for PERL RE patterns matching juicy keywords in the messages. (To me Chinese or Russian texts are just line noise...)
> Niek van alphen > mastex@servicez.org
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