Re: [SURBL-Discuss] List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 11:27:52 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > Does anyone have or know about a list of spam-advertised URIs > where the spam they appeared in was sent through open relays, > zombies, open proxies, etc. In other words does anyone know > of a list of spamvertised web si

OT: "Spyware Assassin" suspended

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
ually remove spyware, the FTC said. A U.S. court has ordered the company and its owner, Thomas Delanoy, to suspend its activities until a court hearing on Tuesday. The company could be required to give back all the money it made from selling Spyware Assassin. __ Comment: LOL! Jeff C. -- Jeff

List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-12 Thread Jeff Chan
Does anyone have or know about a list of spam-advertised URIs where the spam they appeared in was sent through open relays, zombies, open proxies, etc. In other words does anyone know of a list of spamvertised web sites or their domains that's been cross referenced to exploited hosts? We could us

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-12 Thread Jeff Chan
here they're highly effective at detecting future pam. I would definitely encourage everyone to use SpamCop. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
ts disabled is important. IIRC there is a matrix of 4 possible scores, with and without Bayes and with and without network tests. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
; pyzor and all of the subl.org URI lookups. I believe they are using rsynced local zone files. (I'm hoping they're using rbldnsd since it's so much faster and more efficient than BIND.) http://www3.surbl.org/rsync-signup.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
tch you to the > network score sets giving you lower scores for other tests. Without the > other network tests to balance things out, you may end up with lower > scores overall. Or you could boost the SURBL scores, or lower your spam threshold. :-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 7:51:45 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Friday, March 11, 2005, 7:48:26 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: >> in your preferences file, >> skip_rbl_checks 1 >> will turn off the RBL checks but leave SURBL checks on. >> Vivek Khera, Ph.D. >> +1-301-86

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
; skip_rbl_checks 1 > will turn off the RBL checks but leave SURBL checks on. > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. > +1-301-869-4449 x806 Hmm, but is that a good thing or an inconsistency? In any case setting the scores of the regular RBL checks to 0 will definitely do the right thing, and is arguably

Re: Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
nt on expressions. How about reporting the spams to Tucows and Primus to get them to shut down the domains like Joker did? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spam Assassin pattern help for regular expression

2005-03-11 Thread Jeff Chan
c63affa/YriLMz/filename"; border="0">> > http://muoniofgj.net/6481ddc2353481dae6c63affa/filename"; border='0'>> > http://muoniofgj.net/6481ddc2353481dae6c63affa/txU/t1q/filename"; border=0>> These three domains appear to belong to the same spammer. Joker shut down tatighk.com for having an invalid address on the registration, but the other two remain up at Tucows and Primus Domain/Planetdomain. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Chan
ces and different reasons for whitelisting, it will probably be useful to take note of that source/reason info for each record. If that's a comment after each record, or a field in a database, or both, it would probably be helpful for managing these records in the long run. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 6:20:49 PM, Robert Menschel wrote: > Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 1:00:33 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: >>> Goal: There are public newsletters, services, etc., which a) do not >>> spam, and b) can easily be mistaken as spam by SpamAssassin for a >>&

Re: URIBL_SBL Weirdness

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 8:20:33 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > What this means is that the nameserver for gov.ru is listed > in SBL. > http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL13545 >> Ref: SBL13545 >> >> 213.59.0.0/23 is listed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL) &

Re: ENC: Take that!

2005-03-10 Thread Jeff Chan
hones) property for personal use? Seems kinda dumb for a spammer to list their work phone.... Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIBL_SBL Weirdness

2005-03-09 Thread Jeff Chan
e it hosts send-safe.com. Personally I don't like escalations like that, but I don't run Spamhaus. Fortunately URIBL_SBL usually gets a fairly low score due to false positives like this. I'd say keep it low. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-09 Thread Jeff Chan
oking at message body URIs do like uridnsbl commands do. As the data was proposed to be collected from local whitelist_from_rcvd lists, apparently it would be for headers. That should be safe, and we could probably still use them to limited effect in SURBLs to keep those domains off SURBLs. It's still a good idea. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-09 Thread Jeff Chan
around thanks to Jeff's work. He went mad for a few weeks and collected > just about every bit of whitelist info from the net. Yep, you're right. We don't want spammers packing their messages full of legitimate domains and getting them through SA because of it. Jeff C. -- Jeff

Re: Whitelist collection project

2005-03-09 Thread Jeff Chan
onsensus about what should be whitelisted. That could be a subset of the local whitelist_froms of all SpamAssassin installations. It could also grow into something larger, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Collecting up SA local whitelist_froms is a reasonable place to start. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] ENC: Take that!

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Chan
4.3 URIBL_SC_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the SC SURBL blocklist > [URIs: dftphildeutschv.net] > 0.0 MIME_BOUND_NEXTPARTSpam tool pattern in MIME boundary > -1.2 AWLAWL: From: address is in the auto white-list (It's on jp.

Re: Interesting new spam!

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Chan
this in{to} your browser" rule. Might be worth a check Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Nice article on SURBL and note about weekends .....

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Chan
organization and its published mail practices, especially including published anti-spam policies. We typically unlist organizations that do not make large-scale use of spam. Generally speaking those who don't spam will never get listed on SURBLs, and our false positive rate is very low. Jef

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

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Chan
ng the messages disappear. You may want to check your procmail use. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: learn_with_whitelist?

2005-03-07 Thread Jeff Chan
principle could eventually act as such a whitelist also, but getting there is non-trivial and has many as yet unanswered questions. As you suggest, even an uncomplete whitelist could be useful for whitening (improving scores (decreasing ham scores)) messages in SpamAssassin, but there are caveats and potential pitfalls. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Quinlan interviewed about SA

2005-03-07 Thread Jeff Chan
s always a lag between zombies being detected and their being listed in RBLs. That delay can be exploited by spammers to do a lot of sending. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf

2005-03-07 Thread Jeff Chan
version 0.24 I don't know about the other modules, but your version of Net::DNS is way too old to use with a recent version of SpamAssassin. You need to update it and possibly some of the other modules also. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: rbl checks, do in postfix or spamassassin

2005-03-07 Thread Jeff Chan
stfix and the standard RBL configs in SpamAssassin. For us, sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and list.dsbl.org were by far the most safe and effective at the MTA level. YMMV. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

SpamCopURI 0.24 released

2005-03-06 Thread Jeff Chan
the upcoming 3.1 version of SpamAssassin's urirhs*. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Quinlan interviewed about SA

2005-03-06 Thread Jeff Chan
an't fake it because it can be validated by a trusted relay. Spammers have access to hundreds of thousands of zombies. They probably have all the computing power they need to calculate a few hashes. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Quinlan interviewed about SA

2005-03-06 Thread Jeff Chan
quot;positive" rules in SA. SPF or Domain Keys may (or may not) be examples, but the nice thing is that SA lets us give them "relative goodness scores" and not an outright pass or fail, so they don't need to be perfect out of the box. That may actually help their adoption as it arguably has with SURBLs. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Chan
>> 3.0: >> debug: URIDNSBL: domains to query: >> >> 3.1: >> debug: uridnsbl: domains to query: crazyrxl0wprices.com > Any ETA on 3.1 ? Well it sounds like they're in C-T-R mode now, so not quite yet, but maybe within the next month or two? http://wiki.apache.or

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 4, 2005, 7:37:45 PM, David Funk wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jeff Chan wrote: >> On Friday, March 4, 2005, 5:12:28 PM, Theo Dinter wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:10:42PM -0800, Jeff Chan wrote: >> >> The URI is a little unusual, with a

Re: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 4, 2005, 5:12:28 PM, Theo Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:10:42PM -0800, Jeff Chan wrote: >> The URI is a little unusual, with a missing port number after the >> colon: >> >> http://crazyrxl0wprices-MUNGED.com:/ >> >> Maybe

Re: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Chan
gt; SURBL seems to work on all other spams, just wondering if they have found a > way to avoid spamassassin catching the URL. > Martin The URI is a little unusual, with a missing port number after the colon: http://crazyrxl0wprices-MUNGED.com:/ Maybe that syntax is throwing off SA?

Re: Quinlan interviewed about SA

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Chan
> Management Committee and two of them (Justin Mason and Theo Van Dinter) > write at least as much code as me. (And Michael Parker is catching up.) Perhaps a follow letter from you to them might be appropriate? :-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Another one without rules for it

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Chan
les it´s not good for fight spammers as a group > (i.e. SA users). Try the SARE Fraud rule. It will probably catch these. http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Quinlan interviewed about SA

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Chan
, in particular, the URI rules that use SURBL, > looking for spammer domains in Web links. Thanks DQ! ;-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

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

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Chan
last bit of history I'm only guessing. :-) Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

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

2005-03-01 Thread Jeff Chan
0.34 Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Porn E-Mail

2005-02-28 Thread Jeff Chan
(envelope-from > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, uid 503) with qmail-scanner-1.23 > (spamassassin: 2.64. > Clear:RC:0(220.104.187.146):SA:0(2.1/4.5):. > Processed in 5.891302 secs); 26 Feb 2005 15:18:08 - > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=4.5 Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: I wonder how Google would deal with this one :-)

2005-02-28 Thread Jeff Chan
, since they advertise this web site, it will get detected by systems using SURBLs, like SA 3 does by default (if it has network tests running, fresh Net::DNS, etc.). Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Sanity check: current SARE rules ok for SA 2.6 and 3

2005-02-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Just want to confirm that the current rules on the SARE site will work with both 2.64 and 3.X. I know it says so on their rules page, but wanted to double check. :-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Chan
/domain/named.root > ; on server FTP.INTERNIC.NET > ; -OR-RS.INTERNIC.NET > ; > ; last update:Jan 29, 2004 > ; related version of root zone: 2004012900 Somewhat WAG, but probably worth checking. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Chan
u checked all of your: /etc/resolv.conf $HOME/.resolv.conf ./.resolv.conf for the user mimedefang or SA runs as to make sure they're all correct and all the name servers on them resolve the RBLs correctly? Also when you say "At some point, SA seems to stop doing lookups on the DNS

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: Spammer Anti-SURBL tactic

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 6:19:06 AM, Robert Brooks wrote: > David B Funk wrote: >> I'm seeing a new spam varient that is clearly designed to get >> past SURBL. It is an HTML message that contains many (50~100) >> 'invisible' links; links that have no target text, just: >> http://garbage.siten

Re: Spammed to death

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Chan
eeing contain URIs (web site links), then SURBL use will probably catch them. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Chan
but I think the "lots of URI" spams are still somewhat rare, so it should only be an occasional occurrence. It sounds like this thread "SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs" is more likely an installation or configuration issue for this particular system. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spams not on SURBL

2005-02-21 Thread Jeff Chan
ease keep reporting them the SpamCop. The SURBL engine for extracting those reports will be more efficient at catching the major spammers in future. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: latest/best RBL lists

2005-02-21 Thread Jeff Chan
sed to block outright, but to increase the scores to indicate a degree of spammyness. An advantage is that false positives on any particular list can contribute less to blocking a ham (a wanted message). Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: ENC: Wet 30 to 40 girls hrony and wants you

2005-02-21 Thread Jeff Chan
N: > mghtaurism.net.multi.surbl.org. 15M IN TXT "Blocked, mghtaurism.net on > lists [ > sc][ws][ob][ab][jp], See: http://www.surbl.org/lists.html"; Or do they mention other domains? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: ENC: Wet 30 to 40 girls hrony and wants you

2005-02-21 Thread Jeff Chan
spam URI mghtaurism .net has been listed in SURBLs for at least 30 hours. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Lightweight setup (a la SpamPal)

2005-02-21 Thread Jeff Chan
of spam I get. Please ask them to use SURBLs, like you are at home. That should catch a lot more spams if they're not using them, even without Bayes. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Chan
main). Note that the other two files mentioned are .resolv.conf, not resolv.conf: > >> /etc/resolv.conf > >> $HOME/.resolv.conf > >> ./.resolv.conf and that you'd want to check them for the specific user that SpamAssassin (spamd, etc.) runs as. Jeff C.

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Chan
gest. Do you have any DNS caching or accelerating programs? Perhaps they're doing something similar. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Chan
Using different upgrade methods can confuse things. Did you see the recent thread about the various resolve.conf's used by Net::DNS? Are they all correct for the user SpamAssassin runs as? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-18 Thread Jeff Chan
Even tried rebooting. Even tried re-install Net::DNS again from (from > source). > Net::DNS must save it's settings somewhere? I can't tell why it is not > dropping the bad server. Do you have any of the other files: >> /etc/resolv.conf >> $HOME/.resolv.conf >> ./.resolv.conf where . and $HOME are for the user SA runs as. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Less spam blocked with 3.02 - AWL-related?

2005-02-18 Thread Jeff Chan
nd why so many > syntactical checks are completely disabled or strongly damped when > using Bayes and network tests together. My understanding is that the scores are optimized automatically using a perceptron. Probably it's mentioned in the SA wiki or faq. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Chan
quot;body" as mentioned at: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#body Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIDNSBL error

2005-02-16 Thread Jeff Chan
>> >> What is URIDNSBL and what is this error? > that's not an error. you're running with debugs on, and it's > a debugging message ;) > URIDNSBL is the plugin used to do SURBL lookups. And SBL nameserver checks and other RHSBLs. :-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: article: SpamAssassin Takes Top Anti-Spam Honors

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Chan
tion's Product of the > Year 2005 Awards. Congrats SpamAssassin folks! Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 10:27:21 PM, Matthew Romanek wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:34:44 -0800, Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:52:53 PM, mouss mouss wrote: >> > Jeff Chan wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, December 8, 200

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:52:53 PM, mouss mouss wrote: > Jeff Chan wrote: >> On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 8:22:24 AM, Matthew Romanek wrote: >> >>>FYI (and for future list-searchers), the problem with URIDNSBL >>>appearing to work but not actual

Re: custom URIDNSBL rules

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Chan
ever resolver the system it's on is configured to use. What you should do is set up forwarding for the "auth2.homes.com" custom zone (and any other rbldnsd zones locally served) from your BIND server to your rbldnsd server. See for examples: http://njabl.org/rsync.html http://www.surbl.org/rbldnsd-howto.html http://www.surbl.org/rbldnsd-bind-freebsd.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Question about URIDNSBL

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 5:08:32 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > Please complain to Barak that their customer walla.com is sending > spam. The problem is not really with SpamHaus but that Barak > apparently continues to allow walla.com to be mentioned in > thousands of reported spam (

Re: Question about URIDNSBL

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Chan
ed on it. Please complain to Barak that their customer walla.com is sending spam. The problem is not really with SpamHaus but that Barak apparently continues to allow walla.com to be mentioned in thousands of reported spam (and probably many times that unreported). SpamHaus is simply noting that fact.

Re: spam warning from zd net

2005-02-03 Thread Jeff Chan
g their feet, > since the spam will now be bogging down their servers, instead of bypassing > them. And the answer is: scan outbound mail using SURBLs. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Whitelisting Groups/Lists

2005-01-28 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 9:51:41 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > As a practical matter an N of 1 seems to > stop most spammers and probably prevents most from even > trying in the first place, which is even better. (But that's with the manual un-moderating, and not auto un-modera

Re: Whitelisting Groups/Lists

2005-01-28 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, 9:34:09 PM, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yahoo Groups has a "moderate new members" setting which leaves new >> members in a moderated state until the owner manually changes it. >> It's a

Re: Whitelisting Groups/Lists

2005-01-28 Thread Jeff Chan
eaves new members in a moderated state until the owner manually changes it. It's a deterrent against spam since initial posts are moderated. Works great. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Whitelisting Groups/Lists

2005-01-28 Thread Jeff Chan
l of the Yahoo Groups I run. Spam no longer gets through to the lists. The software also has a convenient "Ban" button on the new message moderation page. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: New Phish?

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Chan
odge-tread > s-aunt Looks like they're trying to get victims to go to their hijacked computer at 24.74.30.29:8180 . I doubt it has anything to do with postcards.org. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SPEWS still sucks

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Chan
ually use it. Sadly, people still do. > Whatever your unstated reasons are, I beg to differ. Weekly mass-check > results for SURBL: I think Raymond is referring to the SPEWS list being not too useful, given its high FP rate. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: content checking with SA?

2005-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
A that will allow a > marketeer to check their mail before sending out? > thanks, > simon I'd feel a lot better answering your question if you had a real name and address (how do we know you're not a spammer?), but the quick answer is that you can feed your message into SpamA

Re: Net check for large servers

2005-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
essages per day. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Declining efficiency after upgrade to 3.0.0

2005-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
some things in the earlier versions, and should be more efficient. 2. Make sure you have network tests enabled: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest 3. As requested, give some sample spam rule hits or a sample spam so folks here can check your results. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: network tests

2005-01-22 Thread Jeff Chan
7.sbl.spamhaus.org a how long does it take? If more than a few milliseconds then your DNS configuration may be broken. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: network tests

2005-01-22 Thread Jeff Chan
ng done even > though our local.cf says they are turned off. Depends how you're starting SpamAssassin. Various flags are described at: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: urirbl and wildcard records

2005-01-21 Thread Jeff Chan
n names that would be registered. There are several reasons for this but the main is to ignore the extra subdomains/levels/hostnames that spammers sometimes add. This is described more on the SURBL site, for example at: http://www.surbl.org/implementation.html in the FAQ, etc. http://ww

Re: URIBL_SBL

2005-01-18 Thread Jeff Chan
> [100%] > package perl-Net-DNS-0.48-0.1.fc2.rf is already installed Perhaps you installed SA or Net::DNS from CPAN and the other another way like tarbals? Sometimes that confuses the installations. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIBL_SBL

2005-01-18 Thread Jeff Chan
users. Any idea what I have > set wrong? It it enabled in the default installation, but you need to have a recent version of Net::DNS and have network tests enabled. Here are some suggestions: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Request for spam from Kennedy-Western/kw.edu

2005-01-18 Thread Jeff Chan
et > KennedyWestern@ > Kennedy Western > I sincerely appreciate the help. > Cheers, > - Bill I see 43 NANAS hits on a 1996 domain (kw.edu) that probably has legitimate uses. I may whitelist their domains on SURBLs unless they are spammers on the order of a Ral

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-15 Thread Jeff Chan
;1"> > href="http://mysite.verizon.net/resoxfmz/ServiceBasic.htm";>Preferences>  DEFANGED_STYLE="font-size: 1pt">>>> >> Will they give the child a good religious upbringing? > That's our religion, isn't it? How ya doin'? Let verizon know. They probably have an AUP and probably enforce it. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-15 Thread Jeff Chan
t;> >> Will they give the child a good religious upbringing? >> That's our religion, isn't it? How ya doin'? >> > yep. and if you mail "abuse" from europe the won't accept the message. :-) > blocked locally :-) urirhs* may not catch it since it's the third level of a gtld. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Jeff Chan
Please note that if you upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 or 3.0.2, the uridnsbl rules changed from type "header" to type "body". If the rules are not similarly updated, they will not trigger. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, 1:19:58 AM, Darren Coleman wrote: >> From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> % dig 2.0.0.127.sbl.spamhaus.org a >> >> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> 2.0.0.127.sbl.spamhaus.org a >> ;; res options: init recurs def

Re: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 4:57:57 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 8:15:12 AM, Darren Coleman wrote: >> Figured out why URIBL_SBL wasn't firing for me for that email - I can't >> even resolve that domain! Have tried resolving it on several

Re: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff Chan
er with > different providers), and none of them can do it. Which domain? sbl.spamhaus.org should resolve from anywhere.... Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-12 Thread Jeff Chan
wrong with this? > Thanks, > Darren Try installing a current Net::DNS and enabling network tests. SURBL and other URIBL rules triggered on the URIs in your spam: URIBL_AB_SURBL,URIBL_SBL,URIBL_SC_SURBL,URIBL_WS_SURBL Those should be plenty to get them marked as spam. Jeff C.

Re: Need Some Advice

2005-01-11 Thread Jeff Chan
t version of Net::DNS. How you enable network tests depends on how you start SA. Some suggestions are at: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: More URI tests to drive up scores (was Re: Implicit trust of surbl and sbl)

2005-01-08 Thread Jeff Chan
, I'm not sure that this is a correct use of urirhssub, which may have been more suited towards bitmasked lists such as multi.surbl.org and CBL. In other words, it may only be useable with power of two results like 127.0.0.2,4,8,16,32. To be honest I haven't checked how the urirhssub source

Re: Implicit trust of surbl and sbl

2005-01-08 Thread Jeff Chan
itives. Our FP rate is low, but non-zero. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Too much spam getting through... Sharing rules or db's?

2005-01-07 Thread Jeff Chan
u calling SpamAssassin? In addition to Net::DNS you need to have network tests enabled: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Too much spam getting through... Sharing rules or db's?

2005-01-07 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, January 7, 2005, 8:46:41 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Friday, January 7, 2005, 8:43:30 AM, Jerry Jerry wrote: >> I currently use the spamcop RBL.. > to you mean bl.spamcop.net or sc.surbl.org. The two are not > the same. That should read: Do you mean bl.spamcop.net

Re: Too much spam getting through... Sharing rules or db's?

2005-01-07 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, January 7, 2005, 8:42:45 AM, Jerry Jerry wrote: >> What version of SpamAssassin are you running? > Running 3 Do you have a recent Net::DNS installed and are you using network tests? How do you run SpamAssassin? Do you see any hits on the URIBL rules? Jeff C. -- Jeff Ch

Re: Too much spam getting through... Sharing rules or db's?

2005-01-07 Thread Jeff Chan
> >>> Also, Is there like a public shared Bayesian database that can help >>> improve >>> the detection of spam messages? >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> David Groce >> North Kitsap School District >> Network Server Analyst/Coordinator >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (360) 394-2621 Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: quick poll on SURBL hit %

2005-01-07 Thread Jeff Chan
> 23,666 XBL RBL 45% On behalf of everyone helping out with the SURBL project, thanks for sharing your kind words and good results! Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Too much spam getting through... Sharing rules or db's?

2005-01-07 Thread Jeff Chan
spam messages? >> >> TIA >> >> >> >> > David Groce > North Kitsap School District > Network Server Analyst/Coordinator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (360) 394-2621 Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: quick poll on SURBL hit %

2005-01-06 Thread Jeff Chan
2.64 rule and score using SpamCopURI 0.22 or later looks like this: uri JP_URI_RBL eval:check_spamcop_uri_rbl('multi.surbl.org','127.0.0.0+64') describe JP_URI_RBL Has URI in JP at http://www.surbl.org/lists.html tflagsJP_URI_RBL net score JP_URI_RB

Re: quick poll on SURBL hit %

2005-01-06 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, January 6, 2005, 7:25:32 AM, Dave Goodrich wrote: > Of 284673 messages processed, 217538 were spam, 175941 hit at least one > SURBL rule. So give me 80%. Best single anti-spam tool I've seen yet. Thanks! :-) 80% sounds about right. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAI

Re: quick poll on SURBL hit %

2005-01-06 Thread Jeff Chan
port them to whitelist at surbl dot org. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

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