Do a search in the archives for Spam and my name. I write all my own spam filters for HoF and they're better than just about anything out there (without using RBLs). Yes, that's ego speaking but I've just finished processing another 2000 spam messages into my DB and I'm feeling good. :) You can also see the current spam reports on www.houseoffusion.com/spam The ones in the pending still have to have their domains and/or owners hunted down for reporting, but you can get a good idea of what's going on. I used to show the subjects as well, but it got waaaaay to long for effectiveness. Maybe in the future I'll expand the view to show all spam from a particular IP.
As an aside here, I've searched through every HoF post that's gone through and I believe that this new rule is valid. It is: If an email FROM has a blank name portion within double quotes, then the message is spam. The reason for this is that any mail client will send either something within the double quotes or no double quotes at all. "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - spam "" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - spam "a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Not spam Just to be sure, I'll be assigning this a rating of .9 (almost spam) in my system. If/When I see that this is 100% true, it'll be assigned a rating of 1 (spam). > Hello Michael, > > Spam is such a huge issue on the internet...I completely understand where > your coming from. We just went to a fully opt in list and it went from > 16,000 thousand to like a thousand people. We were sending 16X more crap > than anyone wanted! Sales wasn't happy about it but we felt it was the > right thing to do. The thing I hate about spam is the business > correspondence that gets lost in the sea of spam. I'd be interested to hear > some of the better ideas you've seen to handle this at a server > level...besides the boycott method...like spews.org which tends to > interfere with legitimate email too much for my needs. > > Best Regards, > Mike Randolph > > > At 06:17 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >OK, this is not what I wanted. I just got an email from Edge Web Hosting. They > >addressed me as customer (nope, not me) and asked me to vote for them. Now > >here's the choices: > >They got my address from the list and spammed me to drive their vote up. > >They got my address from CFDJ and spammed me to drive their vote up. > >They got my address from Teratech and spammed me to drive their vote up. > >They got my address from my site and spammed me to drive their vote up. > >Do you see a pattern here. No matter how they got my non-customer address, > >they're spamming me. You all know my anti-spam attitudes and this is not > >the way > >to get on my good side. > >As a side note, the bandwidth for the lists and all HoF resources is > >donated by > >CFHosting who also happens to be running. Looks like I may actually go in and > >vote now. > > > > Dear Edge Web Hosting Customer, > > > >We need your help! > > > >The voting has started for the 2003 Cold Fusion Readers Choice Awards. All of > >the staff here at Edge Web Hosting works > >very hard throughout the year to ensure that you receive service that is > >second > >to none. Now, we are asking for your > >help. > >......... > > > >Michael Dinowitz > >Master of the House of Fusion > >http://www.houseoffusion.com > >The largest ColdFusion mailing lists around, where the community comes to > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
