[NCLUG] Re: mmmmmmm...spam control
Mike Loseke
mike at verinet.com
Tue Feb 19 15:36:35 MST 2002
Thus spake rosing at peakfive.com:
>
> White lists would be bad for people running a business. But what
> about mailers that are "spam aware"? Something with a white, black,
> and gray list. Anything from a known friend comes through. Anything
> from a known spammer gets tossed. Everything else goes into a neural
> net that makes suggestions for you and learns, based on your
> response. So, the phrase "penis enlargement" would quickly get
> tagged. Oh well, but then people that try and build these things
> (anti-spam sw) could never really talk to each other. For example,
> this message would get nuked. oh well, not a great loss.
Another tactic I've seen recently is to intentionally mis-spell some words
in the subject in what I would assume to be an attempt to get by some of
the filters currently in use.
At one point I was running some procmail filters in an attempt to dispose
of some spam. While it did work to some extent I didn't completely trust it
to just delete it, so it instead dropped what was assumed to be spam into a
spam mailbox which I would check from time to time to make sure something I
didn't want to delete didn't get caught in there. I eventually stopped
doing this because of the constant editing of .procmail recipes.
--
Mike Loseke | One is never deceived, one deceives oneself.
mike at verinet.com | -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
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