[sniffer] Re: Category idea

2007-09-24 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello John,

Friday, September 21, 2007, 5:53:34 PM, you wrote:

 I have been asked by a client to help find a way to catch headhunters and
 such that attempt to recruit currant employees. I have yet to spend time on
 this as it seems creating a filter in Declude for this while maintaining
 low/no false positives would be some what difficult.

Without looking much deeper at the content you're trying to capture,
it seems to me that it would probably be difficult to create the rules
for this without creating false positives. A number of generalized
rules might be created -- but they would be likely to match other
legitimate content. That could be tightened up a bit if there were a
continuously updated corpus of content to code from -- but that data
and the research team to go with it do not yet exist (at least not in
a usable form that I know of).

 While this is outside of what normally would be considered SPAM, I was
 wondering if Message Sniffer ever considered a category for such things.

This is the first time we've been approached about this kind of rule
group. We can build special rule-bases on a contracting basis, but
this is not something we're looking at creating as a product at this
time.

Hope this helps,

_M

-- 
Pete McNeil
Chief Scientist,
Arm Research Labs, LLC.


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[sniffer] Re: Address

2007-09-24 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Greg,

Monday, September 24, 2007, 8:10:23 PM, you wrote:

 Some of the spammers are apparently using my email address as the sender.  
 Any way to defeat
 that or capitalize on it?  I get several bounces a week from all over the 
 world.

One little thing you can do if it's not done already is to set up
proper SPF records for your domains. That will at least help others
skip the malware using your addresses more easily.

_M

-- 
Pete McNeil
Chief Scientist,
Arm Research Labs, LLC.


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[sniffer] Re: Address

2007-09-24 Thread John T (lists)
 Some of the spammers are apparently using my email address as the sender.
Any
 way to defeat that or capitalize on it?  I get several bounces a week from
all over the
 world.

Ah, the American spirit at work. If you can't stop it, make money on it.

;-)

(And yes, I know that is not what you meant. At least I hope not.)

John T




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