Hence why I said "english lanquage" :-) This rule was designed for our company, which doesn't speak a word of polish. I wouldn't recommend it for an ISP. But for small companies it should work great. I also score each low, so a single false hit won't hurt bad.
I've been looking at the 3 letter scans. tooo many combos. Although maybe polish has a frequent combo to be avoided (ie: zje or jze) > -----Original Message----- > From: DEFFONTAINES Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] How detect messages like these? > > > Strange enough, but there are many languages in the world > that don't look > like english, > and people use them every day to send ham to each other... > > I believe rules like : > > /z(j|b|x)/i > /j(z|x|b)/i > > match many polish words. > > Not that I know much about that language, but : > > grep zb /usr/share/dict/polish|wc -l -> 17249 > zj -> 6649 > zx -> 0 (hehe) > jz -> 813 > jx -> 0 > jb -> 597 > > > And not talking about all languages I do not have a single > clue about, > and may use those occurences in everyday talks. > > So I don't think those two letters combinations are a very good idea. > I would suggest matching more than 2 letters at a time, and > even then, > checking combinations against "plenty of" dictionnaries would seem a > prerequiste to me. > > > My 2 cents, > > Vincent > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] How detect messages like these? > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > Any chance SA could include these sorts of rules (especially > the one about > letters that don't belong together in english) as part of the > default set of > rules? > > I don't really know how to setup my own rules, how would I do what you > described below? > > Thanks > Ricardo > > On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:09:24 -0400 Chris Santerre wrote: > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 8:15 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [SAtalk] How detect messages like these? > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Lately I've been getting a lot of messages which have little > > > or no text > > > in them, they just have an image with the spam. > > > > > > How can SA catch this sort of thing? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Ricardo > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > From: Kristy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 13:13:20 -0400 > > > Subject: You get my message? > > > > > > <html> > > > <body> > > > <br> > > > <center> > > > <img > src="http://u4j6u80zbzid3d64zozaj0d.online-shop-exchange.com/i > > > mage.asp?cmp > > > id=vigrex-106.gif&dvn=25J82C6x1L_L85fwJ6L" width="0" height="0"> > > > <br> > > > <a > > > href="http://u4j6u80zbzid3d64zozaj0d.online-shop-exchange.com/ > > > ctrack.asp?c > > > mpid=vigrex-106&cvn=A[,dA9siFznzd[S0,sz"> > > > <img > > > > src="http://u4j6u80zbzid3d64zozaj0d.stop-and-shop.net/vigrex-106.gif" > > > border="0"></a> > > > <br> > > > <br> > > > <a > > > href="http://u4j6u80zbzid3d64zozaj0d.online-shop-exchange.com/ > > > remove/remov > > > e.asp"> > > > <img > src="http://u4j6u80zbzid3d64zozaj0d.stop-and-shop.net/unsub.gif" > > > border="0"></a> > > > </center> > > > </body> > > > </html> > > > > > > > Several ways. All of these scored small, and let them add up. > > Search for: > > online.?shop > > c?track.asp > > and my favorite.... letters that don't belong together in english: > > /z(j|b|x)/i and so on........ One rule for each letter, like > > /j(z|x|b)/i > > ....... > > > > Also keep a rule for tagging your own known spammers. > > /22its4you\.(net|com)/i > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk