On 2026-05-30 at 00:07:47 UTC-0400 (Fri, 29 May 2026 21:07:47 -0700)
Tom Williams via users <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Hi! A friend of mine is getting hammered with Costco, AAA, Lowe's
and similar spam. I don't know how they got her email address, but
she's getting flooded. Her email account is on a shared hosting
platform (Hostgator) and while Spamassassin is installed and
configured, it's blocking only so much of this.
SA performance varies greatly depending how well it has been tuned to
the users it protects.
Anyway, I'm writing because tonight, she started getting messages that
contain the text of a prompt for an AI engine to generate the spam
email. lol
My questions:
1. Is having access to the prompt text useful in helping Spamassassin
detect and filter out AI generated spam?
Unlikely, but I could be wrong.
2. Would it be worthwhile to create any kind of rule to look for the
prompt text to help in filtering out the messages?
Not having seen any such spam yet I can't say for sure, but I would
think not. I doubt that any two spammers using LLMs would use the same
prompt. It may be worth testing.
I have a few samples of these if anyone is interested.
I suggest constructing rules and testing them.
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