Re: [Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams

2006-11-02 Thread leloup
Am Mittwoch November 1 2006 15:48 schrieb Dave Helton: I have had very good success with this plugin for SA. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin config file allows you to add/remove keywords, and the program keeps a hash of known images so that they are not ocr'ed again. I am

Re: [Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I'm trying to do some stochastic analysis of stock spams and figure out if there's a common fingerprint that can be used to identify them... Philip: Have you looked at Dallas' ImageInfo.pm? See http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins.htm. It's a great place to start building image rules.

Re: [Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams

2006-11-01 Thread David F. Skoll
Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I will also say that the stock image spams have been very effective at thwarting traditional anti-spam techniques. Not to blow our own horn too much, but... We've had pretty good luck with our RPTN system. It's a shared Bayes database. A couple of hundred of our

RE: [Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams

2006-11-01 Thread Jason Bertoch [Electronet]
-Original Message- Not to blow our own horn too much, but... We've had pretty good luck with our RPTN system. Regards, David. David, Where might I find more information on the RPTN system? The searchable archives don't seem to be working at the moment. Jason A.

RE: [Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams

2006-11-01 Thread Dave Helton
@lists.roaringpenguin.com Subject: [Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams I'm trying to do some stochastic analysis of stock spams and figure out if there's a common fingerprint that can be used to identify them... But first, I'm bumping up against some Perl issues. Seems that there aren't

Re: [Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams

2006-11-01 Thread David F. Skoll
Jason Bertoch [Electronet] wrote: Where might I find more information on the RPTN system? The searchable archives don't seem to be working at the moment. We have a white paper (mostly marketing-oriented, alas):

[Mimedefang] LZW, Gifs, and fingerprinting stock spams

2006-10-31 Thread Philip Prindeville
I'm trying to do some stochastic analysis of stock spams and figure out if there's a common fingerprint that can be used to identify them... But first, I'm bumping up against some Perl issues. Seems that there aren't many modules out there that help deconstruct Gif formats. I'm using