Mike Meredith wrote: > Sometime around Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:47:03 +0800, it may be that W B > Hacker wrote: > >>- Second, you may be scanning *huge* messages and/or attachments. >>Spammers rarely send large messages, simply becasue it take their >>servers/zombies too long on each connection and they are impatient >>and greedy, and need to hit zillions of WinVictims to find enough >>gullible ones with money. > > > Well, spammers will resort to whatever tactics gets their messages > through. Looking at :- > > http://zonky.org/notes/spam-report/spam-avsize.png > > It seems to be that spam sizes are slowly increasing over time. Mostly > at present to get around text scanning blocks by including GIFs with > their message inside. >
ACK. .gifs may get around the scanner entirely here. 'discard' verb, IIRC.... Before we even get SA out of bed... But it is based on per-user prefs, and we can afford to scan very large files here (SCAN_MAX presently set to 4MB). - a luxury of available resources earned by not accepting traffic from rude 'servers' in the first place. Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
