Re: How to filter these spam messages

[Simon]

What I meant to say is that, eventhough they do get filtered, these spam messages
do not get scored high enough to offset threshold so they get marked as spam. I
will check on greylisting, but what I was really hoping for is a ruleset which helps
score these high enough so they are marked as spam.

-Simon

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:00:12 -0700, jdow wrote:

>From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out what to do to filter these spam messages. I can't seem to
>> find a ruleset which would filter them. Perhaps I need to change something in
>> my configuration? any help would be appreciated, thanks!
>>
>> Here are the latest spam I'm receiving:
>>
>> http://optinet.com/spam.txt
>>
>> My config is pretty much default and I have few extra rulesets from rulesemporium
>
>1) Technically every message sent through SpamAssassin is filtered. So
>I've no idea what you mean above.
>
>2) Taking a stab in the dark you are expecting SpamAssassin to fail to
>pass along spam messages for delivery. This is not something that
>SpamAssassin does. All SA does is issue a score, one of several
>different ways. It is up to your MDA to act on that score if you do
>not want spams (and mismarked hams) delivered. Personally I use a
>markup that places this at the front of the spam message subject
>lines and encapsulates the spam inside a protective outer message.
>*****SPAM***** 057.6 **
>
>(That one was a drug spam that triggered just a whole LOT of regular,
>SARE, DNS, and JD special rules that are up to 100% perfect anti-spam
>rules.)
>
>Then I use OutlookExpress's filtering capability on the first part of
>that markup to toss the messages into a "SPAM" folder. I check the
>spam folder maybe twice a day to see if there is any mismarked ham.
>Those will be low scoring so I sort on the subjects and look at the
>ones with the low scores only. Sometimes I amuse myself with the
>rather high scores some spams can achive. Leo (see SpamHaus) managed
>to break 100 on all low points rules once. He has a sense of humor
>at least. He's still a dispensible human being.
>
>I hope this helps you just a little. (And maybe even shows how to make
>anti-spam at least "amusing" as well as rewarding.)
>
>{^_^}
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