RE: couple of issues

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Santerre
> >True, you might list associated domains. However, URIBLs still >aren't psychic, >they're just smart enough to do research :) > >However, the important point still remains: Time of check IS a >major factor when >talking about URIBLs. You cannot assume that two URIBL checks >are comparable if

RE: couple of issues

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Santerre
fore they are used. It also helps we have people throughout the timezones. So at any time of the day...someone is awake :) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Gif-Only spams

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:16 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: Gif-Only spams > > >On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Chris Santerre wrote: > >> >My onl

RE: Gif-Only spams

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Geoff Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:45 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: Gif-Only spams > > >> Check out the interesting idea at www.rulesemporium.com/forums/ >> >> entitled: Image attachment MD5 footprint

RE: Gif-Only spams

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Sven Riedel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:19 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Gif-Only spams > > >Hi, >has anyone developed a good strategy against spams >that contain a random text and the actual spam in >an image w

RE: Mortgage spam

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Santerre
his torrent >of mortgage >spam? > >Thanks, >Geoff Well...you didn't hear this from me...but you could use black.uribl.com. Sh...don't tell anyone. Its not public yet ;) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: uridnsbl only spamhaus in 3.0.4 ?

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Santerre
sages) >100.000 88.0685 11.93150.881 0.000.00 (all messages as %) > 65.949 74.8754 0.06400.999 1.003.00 URIBL_BLACK *cough* And I've sinced removed the FP that was hit ;) (Thank you again, little birdy who gave me that data!) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Would a normalization plugin make sense?

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Santerre
also void out a lot of pre-exhisting rules that look for some of these filter bypassing codes. I always try to turn their attempts to bypass, into spam flags. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Unsubsribe

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Santerre
>Randomly Generated Tagline: >"I'd rather see my sister in a whorehouse than my brother >using windows." > - Sam Creasey Ahahahahahahahahahahahah! Theo, you rock! --Chris

RE: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-06-03 Thread Chris Santerre
the extra processing up front, our research just pays more attention to those 'pure evil' hosts. Which is one of the reasons the domains fall into balck.uribl.com so fast. I won't release the list of IPs I have now. Not yet anyway. Don't want them to move :) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Comparing subject and body?

2005-06-03 Thread Chris Santerre
against other submitters! (Privacy is kept, you don't know who the others are, just where you fall in the stats.) Fun game, play against your friends ;) We are always looking for more mirrors. So if anyone has some spare bandwidth. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: [SURBL-Discuss] Blogger attacks SURBL

2005-06-03 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:05 AM >To: 'Jeff Chan'; 'SURBL Discussion list'; 'SpamAssassin Users' >Subject: RE: [SURBL-Discuss] Blogger attacks SURBL > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Pardon the

RE: NANAS

2005-05-31 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 5:40 AM >To: Chris >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: NANAS > > >On Saturday, May 28, 2005, 2:52:52 PM, Chris Chris wrote: >> I know what NANAS is, in fact I report to it nightly, >ho

RE: Many URLs resolving to few IPs

2005-05-31 Thread Chris Santerre
ilar, and he seems to be targetting only my >Boss and not any of our clients. > >I guess 'the squeakiest wheel gets the grease' is defintely holding >true at the minute :) > >R It does happen often. And those IPs get noted. We gather info on them often. One IP hd something like 6k of spam domains on it. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Blogger attacks SURBL

2005-05-31 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 8:57 PM >To: SURBL Discuss; SpamAssassin Users >Subject: Blogger attacks SURBL > > >Pardon the dramatic title, but hopefully it got your attention. > >This guy's domain got listed by Outblaze, we re

RE: SA Gateway -> MS Exchange -- what if MSE down?

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Steven Dickenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Additionally, if you ever need to send directly from your Exchange >server, not having an MX associated with that machine *can* cause your >mail to look spammy to certain hard-line sites. > >- S I haven't ever had

RE: SA Gateway -> MS Exchange -- what if MSE down?

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
Lik Evan has stated, it just queues locally. Same for Sendmail installs. If we a retalking VERY high traffic, with 1000s of users, then you better have more then one server. Or a big HD for the queue ;) --Chris >-Original Message- >From: E. Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday,

RE: Re[2]: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:38 PM >To: List Mail User >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re[2]: Is Bayes Really Necessary? > > >Hello List, > >Thursday, May 26, 2005, 10:05:26 AM, you wrote: > >LMU> Thoug

RE: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jake Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:47 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary? > > > >OK. I misunderstood. The URIBLS are working fine. >Interestingly, although >I use the SARE rules and

RE: Logfile analyzer

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jon Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:25 AM >To: SpamAssassin Users >Subject: Logfile analyzer > > >Can anyone recommend a good logfile analyzer for Spamassassin? > Depends on what you want to analyze. One of the ninjas wrote a great

RE: Adjusting the AWL value

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: David Brodbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:05 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Adjusting the AWL value > > >Dimitri Yioulos wrote: >> Isn't the landscape bar required in every sysadmin's tool kit? > >A 3.5 foot le

RE: Adjusting the AWL value

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: guenther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:52 PM >To: Craig Jackson >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Adjusting the AWL value > > >On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:55 -0500, Craig Jackson wrote: >> Hi, >> I'd like to change/reset-t

RE: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jake Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:54 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary? > > >>>>>> "CS" == Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Santerre
strive for, so SA can be more widley excepted. I have a 99% filter rate without bayes. And I'm proud of that. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: aecioneto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:36 PM >To: users >Subject: Re: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions > > >Loren and Chris, >thanks for your replies. >I am aware of SA, I have been using it from a very long time >ago - ha

RE: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Santerre
Which, IMHO is complete BS. You just don't have a phone number to call. But there is plenty of support. So again, I have seen no single fair comparison between any comercial product and SA. HTH, Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

[completely OT] CrimeAssassin?

2005-05-17 Thread Chris Santerre
corpa (old records) as well. Net tests would be polling outside agencies like Interpol, ect. Maybe they already have something like this? Maybe not. Just something that jumped into my ape brain while getting ready for work. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Chris Santerre
gt;uridnsbl_skip_domain*.spiegel.de >uridnsbl_skip_domainspiegel.de >uridnsbl_skip_domain*.taz.de >uridnsbl_skip_domaintaz.de >uridnsbl_skip_domain*.zdf.de >uridnsbl_skip_domainzdf.de Have also whitelisted these. URIBL still doesn't have public submissi

RE: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-15 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: martin smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:43 PM > To: Spamassassin > Subject: RE: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes? > > > M>-Original Message- > M>From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > M>Sent: 14 May 2005 1

RE: Evading URI checks

2005-05-15 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 9:26 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Evading URI checks > > > > > Go Here to Order Online: RxRealness.com > > > > > How would one go about adding checks for the omiss

RE: Custom Rule question

2005-05-11 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:39 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: 'Stuart Gall'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Custom Rule question > > >Chris Santerre wrote: > >&g

RE: Custom Rule question

2005-05-11 Thread Chris Santerre
ach match in the body. and not just an on or off rule. > >Is there anyway to do this? Short answer...no. Long answer: Multiple meta rules. Take to much computational effort. The regex isn't slick for these type of rules either. Eval solution: Count hits, yes. Change score based on

RE: Stupid rule question

2005-05-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Kevin Peuhkurinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Stupid rule question > > >Michael W Cocke wrote: >> This is really getting on my nerves... Using Spamassassin >3.03, could >> someone please t

RE: Bogus Virus Warnings and RDJ

2005-05-08 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:59 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Bogus Virus Warnings and RDJ > > > I seem to be having another problem with getting the above > ruleset again. > Anyone else: > > Date: Sa

RE: Anybody order Alistairs book from Pakt?

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:22 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Anybody order Alistairs book from Pakt? > > >On 5/6/05, Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Anybody order Alistairs book from Pakt?

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Santerre
ink it only took a few days to arrive.. I don't remember waiting >very long for it... Side note: He recently asked for feedback of things you would like to see added to a second addition. So if you got any, fire him a quick email. Looking to take it to a more advanced level. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Stewart, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:30 AM >To: 'Chris Santerre'; 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' >Subject: RE: Confession and rage > > > >> >- Simply ban their domai

RE: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Santerre
e is about to get all her emails blocked from 3/4 of the earth. Do NOT place false appointments. Do not hack site. DO Educate. Note: Make sure you do all this AFTER they cut your hair :) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: Brandy spanky new drug spam trick

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:22 AM >To: spamassassin-users >Subject: Brandy spanky new drug spam trick > > >From: "Cialis $89, Soma $59, Viagra $69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Guess what? It passes right through all the tests because

RE: AI methods in SpamAssassin

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Santerre
list like, "Wow thats a big ass!" OR "Geesh your ass is small." THis usually refers to their ASS DB being corrupt. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: AWL whaaat

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:16 PM >To: Andy Jezierski >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: AWL whaaat > > >Andy Jezierski wrote: > >> >> I like it! And since the scores can shift over time, you'd probably

RE: AWL whaaat

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:11 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: AWL whaaat > > >Kelson wrote: > >> Matt Kettler wrote: >> >>> Or were you under the misconception based on the name AWL that it is >>>

RE: Phishing filtering?

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Santerre
7;t get through. Any info is welcome. :D We also add them to black.uribl.com list. We differentiate internally that they are phish domains and IPs. But we just add them to the black list because the outcome is the same :) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com

RE: OT: The highest score?

2005-05-04 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Chris Lear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:47 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: OT: The highest score? > > >* Chris wrote (05/04/05 01:27): >> On Sunday 01 May 2005 04:49 pm, John Andersen wrote: >>> On Sunday 01 May

RE: rulesemporium.com outage again?????

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:27 AM >To: SpamAssassin Users >Subject: rulesemporium.com outage again? > > >All > >is it just me or is rulesemporium.com play silly whatsits again? Ie I >can't connect have haven't be

RE: regexp: exclude a string

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:03 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: regexp: exclude a string > > >In an older episode (Sunday 01 May 2005 12:49), Loren Wilton wrote: >> > /p(?:0|o)rtf(?:0|o)(?:\||l)i(?:0|o)/ >>

RE: The highest score?

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:41 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: The highest score? > > >I cheat. I have a couple personal rules guaranteed to hit spam and no >ham whatsoever. They hit 100. "MOM Agent" is guaran

RE: Web based helpdesk tool for SA?

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Kevin Peuhkurinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:59 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Web based helpdesk tool for SA? > > >Lately I've been thinking that something that would really be >useful for >SA is a web based helpd

RE: Vendare Media Corporation / VENDAREGROUP. COM

2005-04-29 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:48 AM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: 'List Mail User'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Vendare Media Corporation / VENDAREGROUP. COM > > > &g

RE: Vendare Media Corporation / VENDAREGROUP. COM

2005-04-29 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: List Mail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:25 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Vendare Media Corporation / VENDAREGROUP. COM > > > Does anyone know of any emails from the VENDARE folks, or

RE: If you need proof that spammers use the same resources as us ...

2005-04-28 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:27 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: If you need proof that spammers use the same resources as >us ... > > >Jim Maul wrote: > >&g

RE: If you need proof that spammers use the same resources as us ...

2005-04-28 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Craig McLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:33 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: OT?: If you need proof that spammers use the same resources as >us... > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Call me para

RE: SA config recommendations to block these spammers?

2005-04-26 Thread Chris Santerre
>I did write a rule to catch these since a lot of spammers are >still using >this trick :- > >uri __SpoofPort_URL /(?:\:|\...:)/ > >uri __OkPort_URL /(?:\:[0-9]|\...:[0-9])/ > >meta MS_Spoof_Port_URL ((__SpoofPort_URL - __OkPort_URL) > 0) > >score MS_Spoof_Port_URL 9 > >describe MS_Spoof_

[OT] Humor..er...ninja violence?

2005-04-25 Thread Chris Santerre
around chap 5. Chap 8 gets a little weird. Chap 11... well my fav chapter. ;) Great original music score! Anywho, to keep your jobs, watch this at home with the kids out of the room. And yes, I imagined the little ninja to be SA, and the bad guys spammers ;) Chris Santerre System Admin

RE: [SURBL-Discuss] RE: Research wanted: age of spam gang URI dom ains

2005-04-22 Thread Chris Santerre
work Analyst, Network and Security Team >Information Systems & Technology Management Dept. >Ceridian Canada Ltd >600 - 125 Garry St >Winnipeg, MB >R3C 3P2 >204-975-5909 > > > > >Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >04/22/2005

RE: Research wanted: age of spam gang URI domains

2005-04-22 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:46 PM >To: SURBL Discuss; SpamAssassin Users >Subject: Research wanted: age of spam gang URI domains > > >Does anyone have research or references for the age profiles of >domains appearing in

[OT] More mirrors needed for New URIBL lists

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Santerre
soon. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com Disclaimer: The statements and opinions or URIBL.com are those of URIBL.com only. Any statements and opinions included in this post are not those of SURBL.com or its members. We are not responsible if URIBL.com gets

RE: rulesemporium.com availability

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Francis Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:20 AM >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: rulesemporium.com availability > > >Todd Adamson wrote: >> There is apperantly a server problem. The 209.218.125.112 >> server is

RE: Spamassassin book

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Santerre
and final style. Most of this stuff is more advanced. Off hand I can think of any specific major changes to SA that would need to be covered. Unless I've missed something in the dev list. HTH, Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com

RE: rulesemporium.com availability

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Santerre
on't seem to have been able to collect rules for a week >or more. > >FAS Agreed. I tried from NY office yesterday and it was S.L.O.W.! I'll see what I can find out. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com

RE: Results of adding SARE rules

2005-04-15 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:41 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: 'ROY,RHETT G'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Results of adding SARE rules > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNE

RE: Results of adding SARE rules

2005-04-15 Thread Chris Santerre
>Total SMTP Connections >6008 >Total Rejected By RBL >4803 >Total Flagged By SA >431 >Total Delivered >774 >Percentage Delivered >12 Wow! 12%! Damn! Thank goodness for those SARE and SURBL guys! ;) --Chris (Still working on a new SARE ruleset...8 months and counting)

RE: Arithmetic score for replaced O's and I's?

2005-04-12 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:14 PM >To: SA Users List >Subject: Re: Arithmetic score for replaced O's and I's? > > >On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:10:19PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote: >> Sort of. You wanted to count them, wh

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

2005-04-12 Thread Chris Santerre
Well thanks for ruining another childhood fantasy of mine! I suppose next you will tell me that wonderwoman if Swedish for "House maid"? Well I still don't care, she can lasso me up! --Chris >-Original Message- >From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:12

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Richard.Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:37 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? > > >On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Pierre Thomson wrote: > >> 419 spammers definitely produce humorous s

RE: Extra Sare Rules for meds?

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Gray, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 9:43 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: Extra Sare Rules for meds? > > >> >> One of the things the SARE group has realized, is that using >> '*' in any regex is a bad idea.

RE: Extra Sare Rules for meds?

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Keith Ivey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:32 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Cc: Jesse Houwing >Subject: Re: Extra Sare Rules for meds? > > >Jesse Houwing wrote: > >> BODY TABLEOBFU >> >m{]+|"[^"]+)>(<([^>]+|"[^"]+)>)*[a-z]

RE: bogus-virus-warnings-cf

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Santerre
esponds. > >Nick Nick, ask him if he would like us to mirror it at SARE. We rate limit all of the GETs. We even blacklist the fools that try to update every minute. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com

RE: Re[2]: it's getting worse again

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Santerre
> >I hold down a 50-60 hour work week, family, volunteer time for NPOs, >plus personal interests, and still find time to fight spam via SARE, >because it's that important to me. Personal preference. > >If you don't want to spend the time required to tweak SA to a high >enough performance (you proba

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:44 AM >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: Rule-sets > > >From: Ron McKeating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: >> > > >

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Santerre
ks.htm I need to add more. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com

[OT] Leaving SURBL ( I forgot to post this here.)

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Santerre
Greetings Everyone, As of today, I am leaving SURBL for private reasons. SURBL continues to be one of the best antispam measures. I will be forming my own public URI lists. One black and one gray. But they will not be affiliated with SURBL. (So I'll most likely be begging for mirrors later!

RE: Extra Sare Rules for meds?

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Santerre
One method would be to write some negative scoring rules based on where the hams come from. They could override the SARE rules. --Chris >-Original Message- >From: Gray, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:32 PM >To: Jim Maul; SA Users List >Subject: RE: E

RE: Extra Sare Rules for meds?

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Santerre
his type of situation. Hi Jim, Do you get hams with the kinds of drug names often found in spam? Or are we talking about other kinds of drugs? You could always change the scores in the SARE ruleset to something very low for testing purposes. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com

RE: SpamAssassin Without Bayes

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Gustafson, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:29 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: SpamAssassin Without Bayes > > > Hi Everyone! > > I know that Bayes is "the" defacto best way to fight SPAM > right now, but > I

RE: RulesDuJour error updating bigevil.cf

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:40 AM > To: Jim Knuth; Pete Geenhuizen > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: RulesDuJour error updating bigevil.cf > > > At 02:13 PM 4/3/2005, Jim Knuth wrote: > > > Hi Jim,

RE: EFF Newsletter as SPAM

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:28 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: EFF Newsletter as SPAM > > >On Thursday 31 March 2005 08:56 pm, Jeff Chan wrote: >> On Thursday, March 31, 2005, 6:50:17 PM, Chris Chris wro

RE: Testing new rules with lint

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Santerre
lint will load the new cf files, provided they are in the proper location. Restarting spamd will make the changes live. HTH, Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/SURBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.surbl.org 'Owning a domain means you register who you are, in a public recor

HUMOR: 419 pic

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Santerre
http://www.plus613.com/image/12046 Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/SURBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.surbl.org 'Owning a domain means you register who you are, in a public record. You want privacy, don't buy a domain, live in the woods and eat acorns.' - J.Kennedy

Bigevil file is gone.

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Santerre
Too much traffic used for a file no longer updated. BigEvil has been removed. I shall replace it with our newest ruleset soon. Its a real corker ;) Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/SURBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.surbl.org 'It is not the strongest of the species

RE: SARE suggestion

2005-03-28 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 6:29 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: SARE suggestion > > >It seems there are a lot of anti-spam headers which if they are seen >on incoming email is a fairly good indication that the me

RE: ZDNET redirecting to spammer websites?

2005-03-22 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:23 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org; SURBL Discuss >Subject: Re: ZDNET redirecting to spammer websites? > > >On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 4:13:33 AM, Bobby Rose wrote: >> Even though zdnet.

RE: OT: SURBL usage for content-filters like SquidGuard?

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:21 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: OT: SURBL usage for content-filters like SquidGuard? > > >On Thursday, March 17, 2005, 7:13:32 PM, Jason Haar wrote: >> I was wondering if

RE: ZDNET redirecting to spammer websites?

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Santerre
What on earth are you talking about?! It is an open redirect! I'd love for them to have a few choice words for me. Here try this: http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/blahblahwhateveryouwant/www.slashdot.org How is that link NOT ZDnet's fault for being abused? --Chris >-Original Message- >From

RE: REDIRECTOR: chkpt.zdnet.com

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Santerre
It makes more sense to email him direct. Too bad I can't find he email anywhere! I guess its time to start telling the media about this open redirect. Oh well, we gave them fair amount of time. --Chris >-Original Message- >From: Rob McEwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March

RE: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:04 AM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: 'Robert Menschel'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Whitelist collection project > > >Chris

RE: URIBL_SBL Weirdness

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Santerre
> >> The SpamAssassin report lists it as : >> 0.6 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist >> [URIs: gov.ru] > >> But no matter what I try, I can´t find the blacklist that Is used. > >What this means is that the nameserver for gov.ru is listed >in SBL. > > http://www

RE: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:13 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Whitelist collection project > > >OK, based on what little discussion there's been so far, here's a >draft proposal for people to think

RE: Need Help if anyone had time for another dumb network admin

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Santerre
I was not specifically listed as an addressee, so I can't help you. Otherwise I open myself up to 'criminal offense'.  Perhaps if you remove this language from your post, you might get more replies? :-)   --Chris  This e-mail and the information that it contains may be privileged and/

RE: Interesting new spam!

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Santerre
>(copy/paste url in your browser) How silly are spammers? Like we are not going to tag off of this phrase now? Lazy bastards didn't even take the time to obfuscate it! :) --Chris

RE: How to setup things. Novices with no or little mastery of com puters.

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Santerre
>David B Funk wrote: >> This particular one has been killfiled all over Usenet for over >> a decade and so has turned to mailing lists. >> >> A quick Google or Usenet search will reveal it for what it is. ;) > >Wow. I have been living a sheltered life of late and have blissfully >missed him. Go

RE: SURBL+-Checker on rulesemporium.com

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Santerre
>Hi all, > >I'm sure someone here can have a look at the SURBL+-Checker at >www.rulesemporium.com. >Seems to me somethings wrong with the WS-SURBL data used. I fed it two >domains that, according to my SA setup, where included in the WS >SURBL-list (MUNGEDhealtfrombirth.info and MUNGEDtukam.org )

RE: Quinlan interviewed about SA

2005-03-04 Thread Chris Santerre
>Good interview with Daniel Quinlan about SA: > > http://www.osdir.com/Article4419.phtml > >Especially: > >> OSDir.com: What's the most effective anti-spam technology that >> SpamAssassin uses right now? >> >> Quinlan: I think network rules are the most effective single >> technology, in partic

RE: Typical spam not detected at all.. there is no rule for it :- \

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Santerre
> I know you don't like bayes, but it is the best single >tool for stock >scams. The trouble with counting '|' is the frequency of >transcribed spead- >sheets would give too many FPs (typical is to use '|' to >separate the columns). >Most scock scams use non-obfucated words to look legiti

RE: Problem with a Rule

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Santerre
> >Jon McGreevy wrote: >> I am running SA 2.64 and trying to create a rule so that >peoples email >> inside the organization will not be marked as spam >> >> I am trying to use the header option and it is not working >> >> Here is what I have so far >> >> From =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/I >> >> My

RE: Typical spam not detected at all.. there is no rule for it :- \

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Santerre
How about an eval that counts the number of '|' in a message. Over 4 and you got yourself a spam :) --Chris >-Original Message- >From: David Velásquez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:46 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Typical spam not detected at all.. t

RE: Potential new auto-learning strategy

2005-03-02 Thread Chris Santerre
There has been a lot of talk about dynamic scoring. Most people argue that Bayes is a good substitute for it already. But not if you don't use Bayes ;)   I think its a worthy idea for testing. Although the logic could be fairly simple. Like using the top hitting rules script in a cron job.

RE: I don't think the URIDNSBL is working on spams yet

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Santerre
>I just upgraded my DNS and URI, URIDNSBL appears to be working >correctly >now. I'm getting all of the benefits of 3.0.2! > >The URIDNSBL is pure genius, thanks to all who help create and >support the >SA product. Glad you got it fixed. Believe me, the conference call that started URIDNSBL was

RE: PING ninjas - rule download broken

2005-03-01 Thread Chris Santerre
>> Since about 18.00 yesterday, there seems to be a problem >with retrieving >> rules from http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/.cf. When I >> retrieve any rule, I get the following HTML on the front, >which causes >> SA lint to fail. I have tried several rulesets and several different >> hosts

RE: Porn E-Mail

2005-02-28 Thread Chris Santerre
3:31 PMTo: MattCc: Chris Santerre; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Porn E-MailWe are getting a ridiculous amount of spam related to cheap stocks lately. Spam has definitely increased recently. Some customers are calling us asking if we have spam filters, even though our Spamassassin is

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