Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Thompson
Hello Neal, On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, at 11:17:50 [GMT -0800] (which was 20:17 in my TimeZone) you wrote: NL> Hi, NL> Here are the two text files I have cobbled together that will stop NL> most of the swen worms. Still getting one or two a minute and none got NL> through in the last 8 hours since

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-29 Thread Allie Martin
Neal Laugman, [NL] wrote: AM>> My mailserver, MDaemon uses spam assassin technology, in AM>> combination with blacklist checking and a Bayesian filtering AM>> mechanism. NL> I will investigate MDaemon http://www.altn.com/ further. They offer NL> an interesting package. Do you run this commerciall

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Neal Laugman
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 3:53:13 PM, Allie wrote: AM> Neal Laugman, [NL] wrote: NL>> I've looked at Spampal but not in detail. Free is good too. I've NL>> installed Alexander's Baysian plug-in and its just starting to work. NL>> Guess it's the techy in me that drives me to do it myself:/ It ju

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Allie Martin
Neal Laugman, [NL] wrote: NL> I've looked at Spampal but not in detail. Free is good too. I've NL> installed Alexander's Baysian plug-in and its just starting to work. NL> Guess it's the techy in me that drives me to do it myself:/ It just NL> seems with all of the capabilities of TB one could be

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread ken green
Joseph N. wrote: > fwiw, Actually worth quite a lot. Your post made a bunch of sense. > my filters at the client level have proven mostly ineffective. > my current strategy, which is working fairly well, is to filter at the > server level by size (my mail service has such a filter). Yup. This

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Neal Laugman
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 2:14:36 PM, Julian wrote: JBL> On Sunday, September 28, 2003, 8:39:36 AM, Neal Laugman wrote: >> We do the best we can. No one else has been willing to share what they >> have been using and there are people like me who have a very serious >> problem to deal with. JBL

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Neal Laugman
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 1:47:08 PM, Urban wrote: U> Saturday, September 27, 2003, Neal Laugman wrote: >> @advisor.com >> @advisor.microsoft.com >> @advisor.microsoft.net >> @advisor.ms.com >> @advisor.ms.net >> @advisor.msdn.com >> @advisor.msdn.net >> @advisor.msn.com >> @advisor.msn.

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Julian Beach (Lists)
On Sunday, September 28, 2003, 8:39:36 AM, Neal Laugman wrote: > We do the best we can. No one else has been willing to share what they > have been using and there are people like me who have a very serious > problem to deal with. I think, perhaps, that many people on the list have abandoned tryi

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Urban
Saturday, September 27, 2003, Neal Laugman wrote: > @advisor.com > @advisor.microsoft.com > @advisor.microsoft.net > @advisor.ms.com > @advisor.ms.net > @advisor.msdn.com > @advisor.msdn.net > @advisor.msn.com > @advisor.msn.net I never used the selective download feature, but if I unders

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Joseph N.
On Sunday, September 28, 2003, ken green wrote in : kg> a bit disappointed to how willing some people are on this list to kg> provide detailed step-by-step instructions for some things, yet kg> there is very little *SPECIFIC* help in regards to kg> filtering/dealing with

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread ken green
Neal Laugman wrote: > We do the best we can. No one else has been willing to share what they > have been using and there are people like me who have a very serious > problem to deal with. This is true - I think a lot of people are trying. Honestly, I've been a bit disappointed to how willing som

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Neal Laugman
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 12:46:09 AM, Edgar wrote: >> It was also pointed out to me by Ken that AOL and Yahoo are in the >> list. Delete these if it is a problem. E> Yes, and not only from this list but also from people in your address E> book. E> Maybe you can at a fourth filter with names

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Edgar
Hello Neal, Saturday, September 27, 2003, 10:20:19 PM, you wrote: E>> And only the mails that match with both (so From AND to) will be E>> deleted? > No - this is an "OR" condition: if one does not do it, the second > will. I have the sender filter first, then the addressee. I also have >

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Neal Laugman
Hi Thomas, TF> I was defnitely trying to help you. Forgot the smiley at the last TF> joke, though. I thought it was obvious, but hey, people are different. Yes - I suppose I took it wrong. Please accept my apologies. No harm :o) The worm thing really has me wound up. Just trying to make a contrib

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Neal, On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:39:36 -0800 GMT (28/09/2003, 14:39 +0700 GMT), Neal Laugman wrote: > We do the best we can. No one else has been willing to share what they > have been using and there are people like me who have a very serious > problem to deal with. mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] deal

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-28 Thread Neal Laugman
Saturday, September 27, 2003, 8:40:58 PM, Thomas wrote: TF> Why don't you just use "@advisor"? Same goes for "@bulletin" and TF> @news" etc. >> @yahoo.com TF> You'll definitely get false-postives when reading this very mailing TF> list. We do the best we can. No one else has been willing to shar

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-27 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Neal, On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:17:50 -0800 GMT (28/09/2003, 02:17 +0700 GMT), Neal Laugman wrote: > There are two selective download filters: form and to. Originator.txt and > addressee.txt are the external files you would use respectively. [Orig] > @advisor.com > @advisor.microsoft.com > @

Re[2]: Worm filter text

2003-09-27 Thread Neal Laugman
Saturday, September 27, 2003, 12:05:43 PM, Edgar wrote: E> Hello Neal, E> Saturday, September 27, 2003, 9:17:50 PM, you wrote: >> There are two selective download filters: form and to. Originator.txt and >> addressee.txt are the external files you would use respectively. E> And only the mail

Re: Worm filter text

2003-09-27 Thread Edgar
Hello Neal, Saturday, September 27, 2003, 9:17:50 PM, you wrote: > There are two selective download filters: form and to. Originator.txt and > addressee.txt are the external files you would use respectively. And only the mails that match with both (so From AND to) will be deleted? -- Che

Worm filter text

2003-09-27 Thread Neal Laugman
Hi, Here are the two text files I have cobbled together that will stop most of the swen worms. Still getting one or two a minute and none got through in the last 8 hours since I went off-line last night. There are two selective download filters: form and to. Originator.txt and addressee.txt are t