Re: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread Matt Kettler
WLamotte wrote: > Sorry if this is an obvious question but why isn't there an option for > Spamassassin to bounce spam? Sure it does a good job at filtering spam but I > don't want it from my web(mail)server to my inbox. I want my web- or > mailserver to bounce suspected spam. Is this a feature tha

Re: SA 3.2.1 Running Fine on Windows

2007-06-15 Thread René Berber
Bret Miller wrote: > The subject says it. I installed 3.2.1 on Windows Server 2003 with > ActivePerl 5.8.8.820 yesterday. No problems since installing. Good job > as usual. Similar result under Cygwin installing from the source package (over an old cpan install), plus sa-compile (with some manual

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Bill Landry
Daniel J McDonald wrote the following on 6/15/2007 3:37 PM -0800: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:27 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: Daniel J McDonald wrote the following on 6/15/2007 2:54 PM -0800: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 22:08 +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: And a few others... Might as well be complet

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:27 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: > Daniel J McDonald wrote the following on 6/15/2007 2:54 PM -0800: > > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 22:08 +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: > > > > And a few others... Might as well be completely consistent. Try this > > patch: > > --- Botnet.pm.orig

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Bill Landry
Daniel J McDonald wrote the following on 6/15/2007 2:54 PM -0800: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 22:08 +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: Bill, The problem is that Botnet uses Net::DNS::Resolver's default retry and timeout values, which are way too high. Spamassassin's DnsResolver.pm uses these values: u

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Bill Landry
John Rudd wrote the following on 6/15/2007 3:00 PM -0800: Bill Landry wrote: Also, I'm not sure if John Rudd is still supporting Botnet or not, since I have sent him 3 e-mails to the address listed in Botnet.pm off-list over the past week about this, and asked him if he would consider addin

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread John Rudd
John Rudd wrote: Bill Landry wrote: Also, I'm not sure if John Rudd is still supporting Botnet or not, since I have sent him 3 e-mails to the address listed in Botnet.pm off-list over the past week about this, and asked him if he would consider adding user configurable timeout values, but h

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread John Rudd
Bill Landry wrote: Also, I'm not sure if John Rudd is still supporting Botnet or not, since I have sent him 3 e-mails to the address listed in Botnet.pm off-list over the past week about this, and asked him if he would consider adding user configurable timeout values, but have not received a

RE: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 22:08 +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: > Bill, > > The problem is that Botnet uses Net::DNS::Resolver's default retry and > timeout values, which are way too high. > > Spamassassin's DnsResolver.pm uses these values: > > udp_timeout:3 > tcp_timeout:3 > retrans:0 > retry:1

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Bill Landry
Mark Martinec wrote the following on 6/15/2007 2:34 PM -0800: So far so good with Mark's patches - although I am awaiting his follow-up regarding a possible bug... Not sure I understand this. My fixes make SA more robust when plugins misbehave. The Botnet problem still causes the mail pro

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Mark Martinec
Bill, > Hmmm, once I patched the correct SA version Dns.pm file, Mark's patches > worked fine. However, perhaps my error caused Mark to find a bug, as > noted by his follow-up e-mail, which might have gone undetected > otherwise. :-) Indeed, thanks! (but there were two other similar reports as

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Bill Landry
Randal, Phil wrote the following on 6/15/2007 2:08 PM -0800: Bill, The problem is that Botnet uses Net::DNS::Resolver's default retry and timeout values, which are way too high. Spamassassin's DnsResolver.pm uses these values: udp_timeout:3 tcp_timeout:3 retrans:0 retry:1 try expor

Re: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread Matt
> Spamassassin to bounce spam? Sure it does a good job at filtering spam but I > don't want it from my web(mail)server to my inbox. I want my web- or > mailserver to bounce suspected spam. Is this a feature that could be > implemented? Bounce spam? Are you nuts? This is as worse as the spammers s

RE: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Randal, Phil
Bill, The problem is that Botnet uses Net::DNS::Resolver's default retry and timeout values, which are way too high. Spamassassin's DnsResolver.pm uses these values: udp_timeout:3 tcp_timeout:3 retrans:0 retry:1 try export RES_OPTIONS="udp_timeout:3 tcp_timeout:3 retrans:0 retry:1"

RE: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Brent Kennedy
How did you setup your spamtrap address with postfix.. Do you have them delivered after they are scanned by spamassassin or do you scan them and send them on from there? If you bypass SA, how are you doing that? If you don't mind, what tarpit settings are you using? I am using the following: smt

Re: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread Nels Lindquist
WLamotte wrote: > Sorry if this is an obvious question but why isn't there an option for > Spamassassin to bounce spam? Sure it does a good job at filtering spam but I > don't want it from my web(mail)server to my inbox. I want my web- or > mailserver to bounce suspected spam. Is this a feature th

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Bill Landry
Mark Martinec wrote the following on 6/15/2007 10:41 AM -0800: Bill, There is now an additional patch at: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5511 which should fix this. Mark, thanks for the patches. However, even with both Dns.pm patches applied, unless I s

Re: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, WLamotte wrote: > Sorry if this is an obvious question but why isn't there an option > for Spamassassin to bounce spam? To boil down the responses: because SA is a scoring tool, only. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sa-update concurrency robustness

2007-06-15 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Juergen Georgi wrote: Hi, I am wondering if bad things happen in case multiple instances of sa-update run at the same time, e.g. if a manual call interferes with a call invoked by cron in background. As I understand the code, sa-update downloads any new rules into a temporary directory whe

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Mark Martinec
> ...a bug pause here... bug -> big (29 seconds)

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Mark Martinec
Bill, > > There is now an additional patch at: > > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5511 > > which should fix this. > Mark, thanks for the patches. However, even with both Dns.pm patches > applied, unless I set "rbl_timeout" to a high enough time interval, SA > still misse

RE: "make test" dnsbl tests sporadically fail

2007-06-15 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
I installed both patches and still get errors in some of the dnsbl tests. Here is a possibly relevant section of t/log/d.dns/1 from a system where the test succeeded: [27718] dbg: check: running tests for priority: 500 [27718] dbg: async: select found 1 socks ready [27718] dbg: uridnsbl: que

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Richard Frovarp wrote: I've heard Exchange and Notes/Domino in the past. I don't know if there is any truth to this or not. I swear Domino did/does it so that they can claim faster queue clearing times. In any case, be aware that caching of your involved MX and A records can have drastic e

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Bill Landry
Mark Martinec wrote the following on 6/15/2007 3:36 AM -0800: Phil, Bill, Mark, I patched Dns.pm but this didn't resolve the issue for me. You can test with the sample messages I posted to bugzilla: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5506 I was getting this sort

Re: spamd crashes when using sa-compile body (undefined symbol)

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Eric W. Bates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Also, you do have re2c version .12.0 or better, right? pkg_info -cQ 're2c=>0.12.0' Nope. Current FreeBSD port is pushing version 0.11.1. I can update that manually without a lot of trouble (sent a note to the maintainer) but

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Frovarp
Marc Perkel wrote: Richard Frovarp wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Terry Soucy wrote: In the testing we have done here, less than 1% of connections to our low priority MX actually cycled around to one of the higher priority MX systems to deliver the message. I'm still not sure if this is a gr

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread arni
Jerry Durand schrieb: I have a few spamtrap addresses that feed directly to sa-learn. Seems to work pretty well. I do almost the same, but i first check email coming into the spamtraps and require a score of 2 before learning it to avoid poisening my bayes in case a real ham should come in.

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Perkel wrote: > I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have several email > servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered numbered > MX records. I also have several dummy mx records that are higher > numbered than my real servers. So in theory no one should ever

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Jerry Durand
On Jun 15, 2007, at 9:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A simpler approach might be to blacklist senders that try multiple non-existent recipients, regardless of mx priority In Postfix I tarpit after the first bad recipient and eventually disconnect. That's cut things down quite a bit. BT

Re: iXhash list @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net being ddos'ed

2007-06-15 Thread arni
Marc Perkel schrieb: Dude - that sucks! Anything I can do to help? Guess in the long term it might be a good idea if someone provided a "second level" i.e. non-rootzone alternate dns server that provides data from all 3 companies that use the IXhash system. Unfortunately i'm not good with name

Re: iXhash list @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net being ddos'ed

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, list, the DNS server of manitu.net, Germany, currently the only server hosting the iXhash blacklist @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net, is apparently being ddos'ed. Admins using the iXhash plugin should either temporarily disable using that server or request being included in a

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Richard Frovarp wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Terry Soucy wrote: In the testing we have done here, less than 1% of connections to our low priority MX actually cycled around to one of the higher priority MX systems to deliver the message. I'm still not sure if this is a growing pattern yet, b

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread arni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: BTW: at one time I was quite happy with some pre-filtering on my private mail (which is fetchmail ultimately feeding to SA) until I found that SA would no longer recognize some spam in the bayes section. So, if capacity permits, it might be a good idea to feed (a ran

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread hamann . w
>> >> >> >> >> >> I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have >> >> several email >> >> servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered >> >> numbered >> >> >> > >> > As others said, not a good idea. >> > >> > Don't bother BL isting them, if they hit your dummy m

Re: Pls explain my false positive

2007-06-15 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:42:43 -0400 Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:00:43AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no > > version=3.1.9 > > X-Spam-Report: > > * 5.3 AWL AWL: From: address is

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Frovarp
Marc Perkel wrote: Terry Soucy wrote: In the testing we have done here, less than 1% of connections to our low priority MX actually cycled around to one of the higher priority MX systems to deliver the message. I'm still not sure if this is a growing pattern yet, but it could be a sign of spa

Re: Pls explain my false positive

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Boland
Michael B Allen wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed SA on a stock CentOS 5 machine. I forwarded a spam to it > and it worked. Then I sent a very short "hi" message that I would expect > should make it through but it did not. > >> From looking at the X-Spam headers: > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3

Re: Pls explain my false positive

2007-06-15 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:00:43AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no > version=3.1.9 > X-Spam-Report: > * 5.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list > > I don't see an explaination. Where is the explaination? It's

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Terry Soucy wrote: In the testing we have done here, less than 1% of connections to our low priority MX actually cycled around to one of the higher priority MX systems to deliver the message. I'm still not sure if this is a growing pattern yet, but it could be a sign of spambots catching on.

SA 3.2.1 Running Fine on Windows

2007-06-15 Thread Bret Miller
The subject says it. I installed 3.2.1 on Windows Server 2003 with ActivePerl 5.8.8.820 yesterday. No problems since installing. Good job as usual. Bret

Re: iXhash list @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net being ddos'ed

2007-06-15 Thread Matthias Haegele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, list, the DNS server of manitu.net, Germany, currently the only server hosting the iXhash blacklist @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net, is apparently being ddos'ed. Admins using the iXhash plugin should either temporarily disable using that server or request being included in a

Re: iXhash list @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net being ddos'ed

2007-06-15 Thread arni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, list, the DNS server of manitu.net, Germany, currently the only server hosting the iXhash blacklist @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net, is apparently being ddos'ed. Admins using the iXhash plugin should either temporarily disable using that server or request being included in a

iXhash list @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net being ddos'ed

2007-06-15 Thread dirk
Hi, list, the DNS server of manitu.net, Germany, currently the only server hosting the iXhash blacklist @ ix.dnsbl.manitu.net, is apparently being ddos'ed. Admins using the iXhash plugin should either temporarily disable using that server or request being included in a whitelist the provider has s

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Terry Soucy wrote: In the testing we have done here, less than 1% of connections to our low priority MX actually cycled around to one of the higher priority MX systems to deliver the message. I'm still not sure if this is a growing pattern yet, but it could be a sign of spambots catching on.

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Terry Soucy
In the testing we have done here, less than 1% of connections to our low priority MX actually cycled around to one of the higher priority MX systems to deliver the message. I'm still not sure if this is a growing pattern yet, but it could be a sign of spambots catching on. Whether or not they hit

Re: 3.2.1 is a failure?

2007-06-15 Thread Sidney Markowitz
Jari Fredriksson wrote, On 15/6/07 7:53 AM: > Both installation tries were via cpan, and here is the result. That looks like bug 5510, about failing tests when they are run s root, which breaks CPAN installation in the common setup in which the build and test are run as root. I think you can confi

Re: spamd crashes when using sa-compile body (undefined symbol)

2007-06-15 Thread Eric W. Bates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Scheidell wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Eric W. Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:17 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: spamd crashes when using sa-compile body (undefined symbo

RE: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread Rick Cooper
> -Original Message- > From: WLamotte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:13 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam? > > > Sorry if this is an obvious question but why isn't there an > option for > Spama

Re: missing tag

2007-06-15 Thread Jerry Durand
On Jun 15, 2007, at 5:37 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: always_trust_envelope_sender 1 envelope_sender_header Return-Path Done, thanks.

Re: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Spamassassin to bounce spam? Sure it does a good job at filtering spam but I don't want it from my web(mail)server to my inbox. I want my web- or mailserver to bounce suspected spam. Is this a feature that could be implemented? Bounce spam? Are you nuts? This is as worse as the spammers se

Re: Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, June 15, 2007 15:13, WLamotte wrote: > > Sorry if this is an obvious question but why isn't there an option for > Spamassassin to bounce spam? Sure it does a good job at filtering spam but I > don't want it from my web(mail)server to my inbox. I want my web- or > mailserver to bounce > su

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Shane Williams
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: Shane Williams wrote: Unless you have some other reliable source of statistics regarding how various entities choose MX records, I'd expect blacklisting this way is likely to garner significant false positives. It appears that some spammers hit the h

Why doesn't Spamassassin bounce spam?

2007-06-15 Thread WLamotte
Sorry if this is an obvious question but why isn't there an option for Spamassassin to bounce spam? Sure it does a good job at filtering spam but I don't want it from my web(mail)server to my inbox. I want my web- or mailserver to bounce suspected spam. Is this a feature that could be implemented?

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Shane Williams wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: What I see happening is that they are hitting MX randomly. So some times they hit a good server and sometimes they hit the trap. Once they have hit the trap several times then they are blacklisted in my hostkarma blacklist and if

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Shane Williams
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: What I see happening is that they are hitting MX randomly. So some times they hit a good server and sometimes they hit the trap. Once they have hit the trap several times then they are blacklisted in my hostkarma blacklist and if they hit a real server t

Pls explain my false positive

2007-06-15 Thread Michael B Allen
Hi, I just installed SA on a stock CentOS 5 machine. I forwarded a spam to it and it worked. Then I sent a very short "hi" message that I would expect should make it through but it did not. >From looking at the X-Spam headers: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no ver

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 3:19 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have several email servers f

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered numbered MX records. I also have several dummy mx records that are higher numbered than my real servers. So in theory no one should ever hit the higher numbered servers. Especially when the IP addres

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have several email servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered numbered MX records. I also have several dummy mx records that are higher numbered than my real servers. So in the

Re: missing tag

2007-06-15 Thread Mark Martinec
Daryl writes: > Make sure your milter is providing a return path header field so that SA > gets the correct envelope-from address. I believe old versions of > amavisd-new don't do this. If the milter fails to do this SA will end > up using the From: header field value and, yeah, you'll get SPF fai

RE: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 3:19 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea > > > I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have > several email > servers for proces

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-15 Thread Mark Martinec
Phil, Bill, > Mark, I patched Dns.pm but this didn't resolve the issue for me. > You can test with the sample messages I posted to bugzilla: > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5506 > I was getting this sort of symptom without using Botnet. > It's almost as if something's dead

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered numbered MX records. I also have several dummy mx records that are higher numbered than my real servers. So in theory no one should ever hit the higher numbered servers. Especially when the IP addresses are on the same server as

Re: sa-update, can't resolve 'localhost' to address

2007-06-15 Thread Helmut Schneider
From: "Duncan Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, June 15, 2007 08:20, Helmut Schneider wrote: From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sa-update --nogpg can't resolve "localhost" to address at /usr local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm line

sa-update concurrency robustness

2007-06-15 Thread Juergen Georgi
Hi, I am wondering if bad things happen in case multiple instances of sa-update run at the same time, e.g. if a manual call interferes with a call invoked by cron in background. As I understand the code, sa-update downloads any new rules into a temporary directory where it does some sanity c

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Marc Perkel wrote: I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have several email servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered numbered MX records. I also have several dummy mx records that are higher numbered than my real servers. So in theory no one should ever hit th

Re: sa-update, can't resolve 'localhost' to address

2007-06-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, June 15, 2007 08:20, Helmut Schneider wrote: > Hi, > > > From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sa-update --nogpg >>> can't resolve "localhost" to address at >>> /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm >>> line 751. [EMAIL PR

Re: sa-update, can't resolve "localhost" to address

2007-06-15 Thread Helmut Schneider
Hi, From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sa-update --nogpg can't resolve "localhost" to address at /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm line 751. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# A guess-- you have server localhost in /etc/resolv.conf. In d

Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm trying out a new idea for blacklisting hosts. I have several email servers for processing spam. These servers service my lowered numbered MX records. I also have several dummy mx records that are higher numbered than my real servers. So in theory no one should ever hit the higher numbered s