Re: compu.net dnsbl's

2005-12-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Richard Ozer wrote: That's a pretty nasty way to deal with that problem. You'll mostly affect bystanders. Why don't you just filter the requests and forget about them? Because he'll still get bombarded with the wasted traffic of useless dns requests. -Dan

Re: OT? Threats from twtelecom over spam reports

2005-11-30 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Mike Jackson wrote: twtelecom is staffed by morons, like most other large providers. Eh, I wouldn't go so far as to say they're morons. They're just near-sighted. They'll do whatever they need to do - and no more - to protect their own interests without considering the

Re: OT? Threats from twtelecom over spam reports

2005-11-29 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 8:26 pm, M. Lewis wrote: Chris, My opinion (opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink). 1. If the person was legit, he would *not* have responded harshly and 'threatened you' that things would get ugly. 2. There

Re: uol.com.br

2005-11-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Carlos Zottmann wrote: Just a little note on what has been written about Brazil ... You guys surely must have heard about corruption here, but it doesn´t mean that everyone is corrupt, and that every negotiation is a scam here ... Brazil is very serious about a lot of

Re: [Fwd: Re: uol.com.br]

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Justin Mason wrote: jdow wrote: Does that ISP have ANY redeeming virtues? I'm about to blacklist it completely due to its repeated AntiSpam UOL messages clogging my machine. I got a C/R from them after I posted to the fedora. I just killfiled it. use the 20_vbounce.cf

RE: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But even if (say) Ptomania was barred by the UN from ever doing business with any other country; if logs going back ten years conclusively showed that every email ever received from Ptomania was demonstratibly spam or viral; if there was evidence

3.1.0 headers appearing before Received: lines? How to change?

2005-11-11 Thread Dan Hollis
I upgraded to 3.1.0, and now spamassasin is putting its headers before all others, even Received: lines... X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on sasami.anime.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Level:

RE: SpamCop listing internal hotmail servers?

2005-09-09 Thread Dan Hollis
please take this penis waving offlist. this is spamassassin, not my-dick-is-bigger-than-your-dick.

RE: When is Bulk Bulk

2005-08-09 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rob McEwen wrote: If not, the perhaps some people's irritation about getting called at dinner-time for the 10th time by the same phone company be influencing their opinions here? More like being woken up at 4am for a sales pitch for sears vacuum claners from a call center

RE: When is Bulk Bulk

2005-08-09 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Thomas Cameron wrote: Nope - I own a small business and I dealt with B2B spam as often as I dealt with B2C. It's all spam, and it all ends with the same results - the spammer loses my biz forever. Real reputable companies don't _need_ to spam. There are legitimate venues

Re: Do we need a Joe job bounce message blacklist?

2005-05-27 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Matthew S. Cramer wrote: You could probably do this with a SA rule. I do it with MIMEDefang milter. If an email is from or MAILER-DAEMON then I check the mail for a line that looks like /^Received.*one.of.our.ip.addresses/. If it doesn't have the line, then I reject

Re: spamassassin build failure on x86_64

2005-03-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:33:21PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: I'm getting errors building the rpm on x86_64: Yeah, we haven't quite worked that out yet. Things are being linked against things they shouldn't be. :( For the time being, you can apply

spamassassin build failure on x86_64

2005-03-16 Thread Dan Hollis
I'm getting errors building the rpm on x86_64: Manifying blib/man3/Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes.3pm Manifying blib/man3/Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry.3pm + /usr/bin/make spamc/libspamc.so /usr/bin/make -f spamc/Makefile spamc/libspamc.so make[1]: Entering directory

Re: ENC: Take that!

2005-03-08 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Daniel A. de Araujo wrote: We are receiving a lot of kind of messages like that. Any ideas to block this ? href resolves to ip in china - block -Dan

Re: New Phish?

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, jdow wrote: 60.176.251.158 China - send the ISP a nice note thanking them for their order for 100,000 Feng Shui manuals that will take some time to process because of the size of the order. Here's a better one: Dear fellow freedom-fighter: Your message has been

Re: annoying changes in 3.0

2005-01-12 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Loren Wilton wrote: But also to be fair, even though you give people N releases with both features available to do the conversion, there are going to be some significant number of users that simply won't do the conversion until they are forced to, even though they had 3

Re: annoying changes in 3.0

2005-01-10 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Simon Byrnand wrote: I still havn't even considered looking at Apache 2.0 for example due to the major changes and the fact that things such as php weren't available for it for some time. (I hate to think what the issues with going to php 5 might be :) The same issues

Re: annoying changes in 3.0

2005-01-10 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: sarcasm With over 68% market share, and increasing. Clearly Apache is hurting badly. /sarcasm Apache 2.0 and perl6 adoption is severely stunted because of major backwards compat issues. Once you go that route, you must ALWAYS go that route, for every

Re: annoying changes in 3.0

2005-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: At 07:27 PM 1/6/2005, Simon Byrnand wrote: - The rewrite_subject and subject_tag configuration options were deprecated and are now removed. Instead, using rewrite_header Subject [your desired setting]. e.g. rewrite_subject 1

Re: annoying changes in 3.0

2005-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: Hmm, as a user that makes sense. As a programmer, it does not. There's nothing like adding backward compatibility kludges to add bugs to your code. Bugs mean extra work for the developers, work that could be better spent fighting spam. I guess it's

Re: blank lines in headers from spamassassin 3.0.2 corrupting mails?

2005-01-06 Thread Dan Hollis
Loren Wilton wrote: We upgraded from 2.64 to 3.0.2 and now all of a sudden we are getting mails with blank lines in the headers, eg Certainly doesn't happen normally. The last time someone reported this happening it turned out to be a broken version of the integration tool they were using,