Re: Spam, Block: Good to know my representative is spamming..

2005-11-09 Thread List Mail User
... Just received the below crap in from Anna Eshoo in my inbox. Funny, I don't see a e-mail address on my representatives website. And there's no MX record for house.gov. Header below, full SPAM at http://www.espphotography.com/eshoo.html or http://www.espphotography.com/eshoo.txt Anna will

RE: Spam, Block: Good to know my representative is spamming..

2005-11-09 Thread List Mail User
... Didn't congress exempt itself from the I-CAN-SPAM laws anyway? What would reporting to the FTC do? More effective would be to report to the local paper(s), with copied to her inbox. -Don Reporting to the FTC doesn't do much for real spam - I'd expect even less for something from

Re: More spam getting through

2005-11-08 Thread List Mail User
... I'm running SA 3.1 and I have started to notice more spam come through recently. Some are porn and some are medication. They don't hit much of anything beyond Razor2 and Chickenpox, which isn't enough to mark them as spam. Some of the medication spams are using an obnoxious html table

RE: [OTAnn] Feedback

2005-11-08 Thread List Mail User
... Duncan Hill wrote: On Tuesday 08 Nov 2005 16:38, shenanigans wrote: I was interested in getting feedback from current mail group users. We have mirrored your mail list in a new application that provides a more aggregated and safe environment which utilizes the power of broadband

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-08 Thread List Mail User
... From: List Mail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I'm running SA 3.1 and I have started to notice more spam come through recently. [snip - original table drug spam] Has anyone else been having this problem? Any rules to catch medication names in those types of tables

Re: Gmail address listed on spamcop

2005-11-04 Thread List Mail User
... Dallas L. Engelken just wrote: FYI Just had a report from a user regarding http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblockip=66.249.82.205 64.233.185.27 is an mx ( 5 ) for xproxy.gmail.com 64.233.185.27 is an mx ( 5 ) for gmail.com That could be effecting quite a lot of people... D I

Re: DK_SIGNED from yahoo

2005-11-01 Thread List
- Original Message - From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:49 PM Subject: Re: DK_SIGNED from yahoo At 02:13 AM 11/1/2005, List wrote: How do I patch DK using that patch? What commands

Re: DK_SIGNED from yahoo

2005-11-01 Thread list
List wrote: - Original Message - From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:49 PM Subject: Re: DK_SIGNED from yahoo At 02:13 AM 11/1/2005, List wrote: How do I patch DK using that patch

RE: DK_SIGNED from yahoo

2005-11-01 Thread list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [13009] warn: rules: failed to run DK_POLICY_SIGNALL test, skipping: [13009] warn: _(Can't locate object method header via package Mail::DomainKeys::Message at This means you didn't apply the patch to the file that SpamAssassin is using.

Re: DK_SIGNED from yahoo

2005-11-01 Thread List
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [13009] warn: rules: failed to run DK_POLICY_SIGNALL test, skipping: [13009] warn: _(Can't locate object method header via package Mail::DomainKeys::Message at This means you didn't apply the patch to the file that SpamAssassin is using.

3.10 configure

2005-11-01 Thread List
Hi, spamassassin -D --lint gave me these warnings:- [13147] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1 [13147] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag [SPAM] Below is my local.cf. Where does those come about? skip_rbl_checks 0 required_hits

Re: 3.10 configure

2005-11-01 Thread List
- Original Message - From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:49 AM Subject: Re: 3.10 configure List wrote: Hi, spamassassin -D --lint gave me these warnings:- [13147] warn: config

Re: 3.10 configure

2005-11-01 Thread List
I'd suggest: grep subject_tag /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf grep subject_tag ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs Also, if any of the above files use an include, you need to check the included file. Thank you. The rule from Daniel Watts for software is the cause.

pyzor, Traceback error

2005-11-01 Thread List
Hi again, any solution for the below 21734] dbg: pyzor: got response: Traceback (most recent call last):\n File /usr/bin/pyzor, line 4, in ?\npyzor.client.run()\n File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyzor/client.py, line 934, in run\n ExecCall().run()\n File

rbl check not working?

2005-11-01 Thread List
I had enabled RBL checks, DCC, RAZOR2 and PYZOR running, but i still not getting them to scan mails. It is been marked 3.1. X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FUZZY_OBLIGATION autolearn=no version=3.1.0 But if i test it via console eg spamassassin -D -l sw.2.txt, it did

Re: rbl check not working?

2005-11-01 Thread List
- Original Message - From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:31 PM Subject: Re: rbl check not working? At 11:46 PM 11/1/2005, List wrote: I had enabled RBL checks, DCC, RAZOR2 and PYZOR

Re: DK_SIGNED from yahoo

2005-10-31 Thread List
I upgraded to 3.1.0 (from 3.0.4) and enabled the Domainkeys plugin. I patched it with the patch in the bugzilla #4623 (http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/attachment.cgi?id=3210) as I am using Mail::DomainKeys 0.80. How do I patch DK using that patch? What commands?

Fw: The Ultimate Online Pharmaceutical

2005-10-10 Thread List
Hi, Is there a ruleset to block this kind of emails? Vlaxgra - $3.3 Levintra - $3.3 Ciadlis - $3.7 Imitgrex - $16.4 Flompax - $2.2 Ultrxam - $0.78 Viosxx - $4.75 Ambqien - $2.2 Valxium - $0.97 Xanahx - $1.09 Sozma - $3 Meriidia - $2.2 our website ___ Best regards, Online

Re: SA 3.04: high fail rate; X-SA-no-reject?; more details.

2005-09-19 Thread List Mail User
... One other serious hint, do NOT run this list through SpamAssassin. That may help protect your BAYES scores from subtle shifts such as might come if you merely have it white listed. {^_^} bayes_ignore_to users@spamassassin.apache.org Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Drug e-mail obfuscated with div style=float:left

2005-09-19 Thread List Mail User
... Hi, Recently a lot of messages have started getting past spamassassin as ham. They are all the same format and disguise the words by using floating divs: DIV style=FLOAT: left; CBRPBRLBRUBRCBRMBRXBRVBRABRV/DIV DIV style=FLOAT: left; eBRrBReBRlBRIBReBRaBRABRmBRI/DIV Is there a ruleset that

Re: missed by AV programs

2005-09-19 Thread List Mail User
... RE: missed by great AV programs SEE: http://www.pvsys.com/missedvirus.txt This came in today and I ran this against ClamAV, McAfee, Sophos... all with the latest definitions (at least as of the time that I write this, 9/19/05 3:45 pm EST). It is strange that NONE of these 3 catch this

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread List Mail User
list at IP 220.80.107.186 is: openjab.-com A 220.80.107.186 www.openjab.-com A 220.80.107.186 pointmac.-comA 220.80.107.186 ns0.pointmac.-com A 220.80.107.186 isince.-com A 220.80.107.186 netsince.-com

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-03 Thread List Mail User
... I was surprised to get an email with a list of drugs that scored relatively little on SA. Apparently, the spammer cleverly divided all the words into pairs of letters and placed each pair in the proper table cell just so that the it all appear right (all the drug names next to their prices

Re: Huge increase in unblocked @yahoo.com spam - SA not quarantining

2005-09-02 Thread List Mail User
The mail headers you put on your site didn't come from Yahoo! - They came from zombie-nets operated by Leo Kuvayev (Viagra and Cialis are among his favorite products). Yahoo! only occurs in the forged part of the headers (tough Leo seems to like to use Yahoo/Geocities for some of his own

Re: disable FORGED_*_RCVD

2005-08-31 Thread List Mail User
... Sorry, it still. --- Received: from mail.indorama.com (blowfish [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30451E7933 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:08:51 +0700 (WIT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.6.5 Received: from

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR - score too high?

2005-08-27 Thread List Mail User
Hi, we received a Duden newsletter (duden is *the* spelling rules/grammar/dictionary publisher in germany) with the header: Received: from ds80-237-180-34.dedicated.hosteurope.de (ds80-237-180-34.dedicated.hosteurope.de [80.237.180.34]) by netra27.desy.de (DesyMail_In_27) with ESMTP id

RE: Question on NO_DNS_FOR_FROM Rule

2005-08-15 Thread List Mail User
... Thanks. Will have to see how to do this with postfix. Ron Ron Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Infrastructure Security Manager Information Technology Services

Re: FYI: ccTLD .de listed in RFC-ignorant.org

2005-08-15 Thread List Mail User
in set3). That I might worry a bit if it was false hitting. As usual, Matt has correctly stated the situation; But another way to view it is that RFCI is *not* a spam list (or lists) - It is a group of lists of domains which violate particular RFCs. It just happens that spammers

Re: First 3.1 observation

2005-08-15 Thread List Mail User
... The first thing I've noticed after running 3.1pre1 for a few days is that I'm getting much less bayes auto learning of ham due to the fact that most of my messages from mailings lists fail SPF tests and get penalized 2.4-2.6 points or so for it. They still aren't marked as spam, but

Re: First 3.1 observation

2005-08-15 Thread List Mail User
... Not for me... * -6.0 USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO User is listed in 'whitelist_to' * 2.4 SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL SPF: HELO does not match SPF record (softfail) * [SPF failed: ] * -1.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list That is from your message... On Aug 15, 2005, at 6:17 PM

Re: Faster rDNS lookups

2005-08-13 Thread List Mail User
... Rob McEwen wrote: I've got an idea for faster rDNS lookups. Before I present the solution. Here is the problem... ...basically, rDNS checks are expensive. They sometimes take a few seconds when done in real time and depend on the timeliness and of other people's DNS servers. This 1-5

Re: FYI: ccTLD .de listed in RFC-ignorant.org

2005-08-13 Thread List Mail User
Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. The person who does most of the checking for rfci is himself German and his email all goes through .de domains (and he does occasionally respond on this list).

Re: Faster rDNS lookups

2005-08-13 Thread List Mail User
And for spam domains, IP-jumping is common... ...for well run, legitimate domains, what you say is indeed correct Overall, I think you actually make the case FOR my idea of artifically long cacheing of rDNS checks. And, I think my earlier messages covered the various scenarios. the load on the

Re: helo lookup before rDNS [Was: Faster rDNS lookups]

2005-08-13 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: Certainly not (no dunce cap). Public airing of ideas generally has merit - quite possibly this idea can be refined to something similar that will provide a benefit (I admit, I have not given it a lot of thought). one thing that an MTA can do is to delay its

Re: Spamassassin and mystic generated mails..

2005-08-10 Thread List Mail User
... It happens once in a while that I get mails with subjects like: Subject: Re[3]: talk thread about his pills and it contains a bunch of random char words, and lots of links to like Eugene.subsidises.net where in the Eugene varies inside the mail and sibidises between the mail.. So is it

Re: Iran Nuclear spam

2005-08-09 Thread List Mail User
... Anyone else been seeing a lot of these come in? The text includes a snippet about the Iran Nuclear situation and a link to a full article. The article appears to have been pinched from elsewhere, but the page includes javascript which appears to use a buffer overflow to load a .hta file.

Re: Selectively disabling bayes autolearning

2005-08-09 Thread List Mail User
... Is it possible to selectively disable bayes autolearning? For example, I would like auto learning disabled for mail sent to this mailing list since all this spam discussion and forwarded spam snippets would probably pollute the bayses database (which probably thinks very highly

Re: When is Bulk Bulk

2005-08-09 Thread List Mail User
... E. Falk wrote: Rob McEwen wrote: Does anyone else consider SpamHaus's definition as too weak and believe that ANY unsolicited e-mail is spam, even if a personally hand-typed note? Hmm, how about Hi, I see you have a link on your web page to my site at XYZ. I'm moving to ABC, and would

RE: When is Bulk Bulk

2005-08-09 Thread List Mail User
a serial number to each message, include in the message a cryptographic key and the serial number, sign the message cryptographically, and then publish (e.g. on a web page) a list of serial numbers and encrypted accounts that the emails were sent to; If the key sent decodes the encrypted account

Re: Checking for PTR?

2005-08-04 Thread List Mail User
... There's a rule NO_DNS_FOR_FROM which checks for an A or MX record for the sending IP, but no similar rule checking for PTR (reverse DNS) entries - and it's not clear to me why not. Anyone able to enlighten me? =20- steve PS: I'm aware that these checks are often used at the MTA level to

Re: unwanted breakthrough

2005-08-01 Thread List Mail User
in London with a Brooklyn telephone number. The same guy who operated all the multitrade domains and the Mather Platt domains also. Currently #3 with a bullet on Spamhaus' list. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leo, you out there?

Re: I Can't Access www.spamhaus.org, anyone know why???

2005-07-28 Thread List Mail User
ping always works (14-18ms). telnet to port 80 comes and goes, as does hping to port 80. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Just reached it again, but all links timed out and telnet began failing again. Also, I have multiple pipes (though most end up in a single SBC ATM

Re: New open http redirector?

2005-07-26 Thread List Mail User
These people (adtech.de) call themselves (excuse any bad translation, all my fault). an E-Mail solutions and on-line marketing firm. It would seem that just like the nate. com case, the redirector is quite intentional and it would not be unlikely that the abusers are paying customers,

Re: ampersand in URLs

2005-07-23 Thread List Mail User
... I lately received a lot of spam that contains a URL of with an ampersand like the following ones: http://mwbmphqks.comuylnzptov306e74lz4hltp4l.wafddiwafd8.com.DEMUNGED/ http://wuqvqspsa.comgwvjb5hnn3f2f1zk4j.impynjimpy9.com.DEMUNGED/

Re: URIDNSBL and subdomains

2005-07-22 Thread List Mail User
generally be used when speaking of generic domains; Also, the notation domain.tld is well understood to be an example of a generic domain also. In general listing the real site causing problems is good for everyone else on the list - some will block it, others will take more extreme action

Re: this receive line only in spam

2005-07-15 Thread List Mail User
... FYI, I got another receive line here that occurs only in spam, with always the same ip-segment (not the ip-address that actually delivers the mail). First I tagged it with SA but now I block the mail in postfix, 15% less spam!. Maybe somebody recognizes these lines. It's the second receive

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
the user not appear as sending spam? I suspect they are out of luck for the bl rules if pacbell is on a block list. Here are the full headers (since upgraded to 3.0.4): From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 9, 2005 2:00:29 PM MST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: here you go Return-Path

Re: Long Scanning Delays

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
... I don't see anything much wrong with the rule selections, other than I think mr_wiggly and maybe nov2rules are pretty old, and at least mr wiggly is in sare_specific (I believe it is) these days. I think perhaps also domaindigits has been depreciated; but I could be wrong about that. You

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --090502030107020101040103 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have been trying to post to this list using my original subscriber email address. Unfortunately, It has been

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
... jdow wrote: From: Aecio F. Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been trying to post to this list using my original subscriber email address. Unfortunately, It has been not possible up to now. I am using a personal and secondary address to workaround a dumb rule, assuming that all hosts under

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
a problem sending to. Kai I am!!! The problem is with this list that does relies its technics over *not reliable* listing services. I know I have already said this, but the problem lies with nearly all the Brazilian telcos, who quite willingly mark there entire DSL ranges as dynamic

Re: Long Scanning Delays

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/14/2005 11:50:19 AM: Remove evilnumbers.cf - check the archives for previous threads and postings by its author (i.e. it should be delete and not used) according to Chris Santerra. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bigevil is the bad

Re: how to submit a spammer?

2005-07-08 Thread List Mail User
... From: Kris Deugau [EMAIL PROTECTED] jj-ml wrote: I've received once a day a spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fidbroker.com) Since it is a french company and i live in france, i call them (the phone number is in the spam) and tell them to stop. They told me they will do so, but of course

Re: dcc / razor

2005-07-05 Thread List Mail User
... On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:48:22 + Ronan McGlue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the official stance on using razor/dcc for not personal use. I've looked at the 3.1 docs and its off by default. I cant seem to find any liscencing info on either site. Anyone got any URLS/ info regarding

Re: How 2 know if *.cf files are being loaded and used

2005-06-27 Thread List Mail User
Not using any URI tests? % nslookup -type=any gravesides.com.multi.surbl.org b.surbl.org Server: b.surbl.org Address:207.166.203.146#53 Name: gravesides.com.multi.surbl.org Address: 127.0.0.118 gravesides.com.multi.surbl.org text = Blocked, gravesides.com on lists

SA efficency degrades quickly

2005-06-21 Thread Mailing List Account - Nereal.Com
Hi! I have a little problem with spam recognition. I have re-learned SpamAssassin (deleting old file from .spamassassin directory, to clear old information) and it worked really nice... but after few days, the efficency of SpamAssassin degrades from 90% of spam correctly identified to a 60%... I

Re: Neat new domain name for phishing targets

2005-06-11 Thread List Mail User
... Just got an ebay phish. The update your account info link points to brTo update your eBay records click on the following link: bra href=http://www.fraud-control.net/partner/ebay; target=_blankhttp://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdate/a Loren Compare to wamu4u. com

Re: DNS lookups

2005-06-09 Thread List Mail User
(it will always and only choose the first match). Possible a [Notfound = return] clause might be properly inserted in the list for many situations (in particular when using NIS or NIS+). Also, doing what I have described, greatly complicates both the setup and maintenance of the machines which use

Re: couple of issues

2005-06-09 Thread List Mail User
is: None of the URIBLs is psychic. None can list a domain faster than it can be reported to them. This means that some spam will arrive and not match the test. Time of check is a factor when you talk about URIBLs. It's a MAJOR factor. Wow, hard to find. Registered taoday at annulet.com

Re: spamcop_uri not working

2005-06-07 Thread List Mail User
... went to this barn on the weekend and was shocked by what goes on inside http://kwiktera.com/maui/five/oh.html its pretty messed up I'm running sa with amavis-new Thanks a lot Don't even have to check - kwiktera. com - Brazilian porn - name servers currently in foracyntro34.

Re: How to increase score of URIDNSBL?

2005-06-06 Thread List Mail User
had it before. However, the more checks you use, the more chances you'll be checking the list that got it reported first. keystreams.com is not on any SURBLs currently. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/ keystreams. com seems to be a legitimate hosting

Re: How to increase score of URIDNSBL?

2005-06-06 Thread List Mail User
[all snipped] keystreams. com seems to be a legitimate hosting company; Which is not to say that they are or are not spam friendly and/or have some customers who are bad actors. They do have a five year history and seem to themselves have been clean (unclear how many domains they own or

Re: How to increase score of URIDNSBL?

2005-06-06 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: Again, I apologize for any implied offense - none was intended. (When I mean to say bad things, I think that the archives will show I do not often mince my words.) I only meant to point out I didn't do a thorough check because none seemed to be necessary

Re: Re[2]: Worst Establishment or Household Name Pseudo-Spammers

2005-06-05 Thread List Mail User
to manually add them all to an accept list.) Staples has never sent an email to any unsubscribed email address of mine, and nobody else has ever sent an email to the address I gave to Staples. Bob Menschel Also, agreed; Staples is IMNSHO completely a good guy. The ones from chetah

Re: Well, sometimes they have an (inadvertant?) sense of humor...

2005-06-05 Thread List Mail User
... X-Originating-Server: inaccessible.scottishaccommodationindex.com Hey, just what I want! An inaccessible Scottish Accomodation! I'll look one right up on the web! Loren Looks like an idiot for an administrator; The registration data is invalid/incorrect - but does not

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-06-04 Thread List Mail User
[previous stuff snipped] Loren Loren is correct. And Jeff and I have had this conversation many times. Jeff would rather not risk the FPs by doing it. I can see his point. But I agree with Loren that we have IPs that are pure spam. One tiny quibble. For each machine blocked

Re: Worst Establishment or Household Name Pseudo-Spammers

2005-06-04 Thread List Mail User
-9032 Or they might have gotten on the Staples list the same way I did: By filling out a Staples rebate form with their email (optional) and not checking the don't send me email box. BTW. Many of the deals in the Staples flyer are quite good and I gladly continue to receive

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-06-03 Thread List Mail User
://www.surbl.org/faq.html#numbered Are there plans to offer an RBL list with the domain names resolved into IP addresses? Postifx does have a neat restriction to reject based on the IP address of the name server. You run the same risk, but I've noticed that the pr1ces, al1v3 and so on spammer has used

Re: Comparing subject and body?

2005-06-03 Thread List Mail User
... At 08:17 AM 6/3/2005, Sven Riedel wrote: I've recently started getting spams that contain as a body the exact same string as the subject and one URI underneath. Is there any way to carry the result of one match forward to another? That's tricky, but you might be able to use the fact that SA

Re: Blogger attacks SURBL

2005-05-31 Thread List Mail User
... Jeff Chan wrote: Pardon the dramatic title, but hopefully it got your attention. This guy's domain got listed by Outblaze, we removed it, and as thanks this guy paints us as irresponsible. Please help us straighten him out, gently:

Re: Many URLs resolving to few IPs

2005-05-31 Thread List Mail User
... I was looking at some FN that got given back to me today, and noticed that In a lot of them the URL resolves to 61,232.205.186 This site has a very simple pornographic advert in it, that varies dependent On the URL requested. Is there anyway to use the lookups for these domains in a

Re: Use of localhost.rfc-ignorant.org?

2005-05-31 Thread List Mail User
to upgrade right now, just disable RCVD_IN_RFC_IPWHOIS in local.cf: score RCVD_IN_RFC_IPWHOIS 0 -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications www.speed.net Or switch to using the list combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com. (Check the page(s) at completewhois.org/completewhois.com

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

2005-05-27 Thread List Mail User
... Hello List, Thursday, May 26, 2005, 10:05:26 AM, you wrote: LMU Though nobody seems to have said it exactly this way: It seems LMU to be becoming very obvious that the people who say the have problems LMU with Bayes are those who support a diverse group of users (e.g. ISPs LMU and email

Re: Re[4]: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-27 Thread List Mail User
Bob, The Staples mention was of interest since I get their weekly ads to an account here. The very last one hit BAYES_50, but all the others were from BAYES_00 to (from a 3.0.1 install) BAYES_44. - Most were BAYES_20 (I looked back 4 months - how long that account's mail is kept

Re: Spam

2005-05-27 Thread List Mail User
Just to keep up; pictilpict4. com is the multitrade group, who now calls themselves omnicorporation. biz (since every domain with multitrade in its name has been suspended). These guys are *very* good at finding techniques to beat both SA and the SpamCop parser, but they don't

open source blocklist

2005-05-27 Thread List
Hi, Anyone know of a open sourceproject which can create and manage an email blacklist and also run using qmail, rblsmtpd and even SpamAssassin rules. thanks

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-26 Thread List Mail User
communication. If my supposition is correct, the question then becomes: Can using personal (i.e. per user) Bayes overcome the problems which some users/sites see? I'm not sure how to test this - certainly I couldn't myself, but maybe some of the other members of this list are able

Re: Mail Failure

2005-05-25 Thread List Mail User
a bad postmaster policy! and I was even able to recieve mail from a company that was listed as an open-proxy as long as the mail itself wasn't proxied spam. Quoting List Mail User [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You could ask them to request removal from the rfci whois list, I only assign a couple of points

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: Legitimate domains will use wildcards for 'NS', 'MX' and even occasionally for some more obscure records, but an 'A' or 'CNAME' record is nearly always a spammer. Do you have any statistics for that? I administer plenty of domains that have wildcard A records

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
... From: Keith Ivey [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Mail User wrote: Legitimate domains will use wildcards for 'NS', 'MX' and even occasionally for some more obscure records, but an 'A' or 'CNAME' record is nearly always a spammer. Do you have any statistics for that? I administer plenty

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
... This rule seems nearly as bad an idea as the one someone suggested a while back that would penalize everyone who uses a middle initial in their From: line. FWIW, I've been running that rule since before it was mentioned on the list, and it is still moderately useful. It does hit ham

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
... Loren Wilton wrote: FWIW, I've been running that rule [checking for middle initial in From] since before it was mentioned on the list, and it is still moderately useful. It does hit ham, but at one point or however I have it scored that isn't significant. On the other hand, that point

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
if their own site or domain hits any proposed rule - look at Hotmail, Lycos or even the headers on people's list postings and see how many hit rules with low score values (in particular the DNS_..ABUSE and DNS_..POST rules). To be a spammer, you have to hit a lot of rules - a good example I got

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
... Quoting List Mail User [EMAIL PROTECTED]: maps to 69.9.164.210, but the reverse of 69.9.164.210 is faye.voxel.net - in particular do you have problems with ISPs like AOL?). Also, I'm not sure if my own servers would accept mail from a host like that - It would depend on the HELO/EHLO

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: Also, just curious, but do you have problems with the forward and reverse DNS of you mail servers not mapping together (ex. mail.dailykos.com maps to 69.9.164.210, but the reverse of 69.9.164.210 is faye.voxel.net - in particular do you have problems with ISPs

Re: Mail Failure

2005-05-24 Thread List Mail User
... Hi, this is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... using an alternate email address to be sure you'd get it. Reply to that address - it may take forever for me to read this one! The original message was sent both to you and the list, so you got it already through the list. Also, it possibly would have

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-23 Thread List Mail User
and easily evaded. - - more importantly, the results weren't very good. ;) Not as good as URIBL_SBL and the SURBL rules, at least. iirc, the hits mapped very closely to URIBL_SBL, esp since Spamhaus explicitly list nameservers of spammed domains. The details should be on bugzilla somewhere

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-23 Thread List Mail User
... A similar idea, without the back-channel flaw is to test the domain for either 'CNAME' or 'A' record `wildcards' (as in the command dig '*.spammer_domain.tld' a and dig '*.spammer_domain.tld' cname). This is an excellent spam sign (the host portion of the name is often mapped back

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-21 Thread List
- Original Message - From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam Hi! it uses a score of 8 and /i - anyway, it might save you some

Re: new meds spam agaianst SARS viruses? this may help

2005-05-21 Thread List Mail User
... Hi, I believe treatment of certain diseases should be left to physicians, rather than to spam mails. The unique collection of dissimilar illnesses should make for a good rule :) Wolfgang begin spam The New Breakthrough of The Antidote PROVEN FORMULA Not available in any retail

Re: new meds spam agaianst SARS viruses? this may help

2005-05-21 Thread List Mail User
... On Sat, 21 May 2005 16:06:25 -0700 (PDT) List Mail User wrote: Follow the trail; Chris Terrebonne's NFP Inc. - snakeoil and spam/scammers of Slidell, LA - (985) 726-0928. They've been around a very long time (domains change weekly, but a few constants like remain

Re: new meds spam agaianst SARS viruses? this may help

2005-05-21 Thread List Mail User
Just a little more history on Chris Terrebonne: The page at http://www.ipswitch.com/support/utilities.html has a list of tools used to harvest email accounts and user names written by Chris Terrebonne (though quite a while ago, and most are no longer available - reasons not given

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread List Mail User
... ... whitelist at surbl dot org Jeff, thanks for the submission address, i'll send a Bcc there and also post the list below to uribl's submission form. frankly, i find it too much effort to check if they are blacklisted, so i will just list some more german domains that i consider worth

Re: more obsfucated url tricks

2005-05-16 Thread List Mail User
... Hi all Using SA 3.0.3 with most of the SARE rules, pyzor, all the SURBL.org URI-RBLS etc etc along with a few extras. We got alot lof spam this weekend where the URL was interestingly obsfucated. here's an example or two.. a

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread List Mail User
... wolfgang wrote: In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 12:44), Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread List Mail User
. If some sites on the list happen to have invalid registrations, then it is probablytheir fault Wolfgang Hamann Wolfgang, What you say make too much sense to be ignored. Since, I am playing catch-up with my email, this may have already been addressed; But, I can not speak

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread List Mail User
Wolfgang, On a related note; Having just seen the first such email at my site (it wasn't delivered), I'm assuming the the npd. de is the actual political party itself? If so, their paper work is squeaky clean, even the name servers' domains are clean; The best I could do was

Re: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread List Mail User
... --nextPart12555236.45TTRGDWuC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 14 May 2005 18:30, List Mail User wrote: [...] Just to keep up; aeroseddicc. com is another multitrade group domain. Note

Re: [Fwd: Re: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 flags messages from users@spamassassin.apache.org]

2005-05-11 Thread List Mail User
Just to keep up with listing the spam gangs; coolestrxever. com belongs to the taiwantelco/taiwanmedial group. (and is one of their fake Beverly Hills 90210/90211 addresses). BTW. The latest registrations have moved back to Turkey (where they started), but use a Pakistani cellular phone

Re: New variant of rot-13 trick.

2005-05-11 Thread List Mail User
Thanks Matt, a new multitrade domain, pics-4-showMUNGED.com. Even with private registration, it is using a set of their private name servers. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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