Re: Sex spam again on the list

John K Masters(johnmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is reported to have said:
On 18:12 Sun 09 Sep , Mumia W.. wrote:
On 09/09/2007 03:08 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
[...]
A thing every user can do is to bounce spam delivered to the lists to
reportspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Best you use mutt's bounce-function or
Kmails redirect function for that, so the headers don't get modified, so
we can directly us that emails to train our filters to do better.
[...]

Thanks Martin. Thunderbird doesn't have a bounce function. Would forwarding
the message as an attachment do?


Without wishing to start a conspiracy theory but has anyone collected
stats on the mail-agents used to send spam. Up till a couple of months
ago most were Outlook but since then I have seen a dramatic increase in
the use of The Bat! to send spam. Obviously nothing to do with The Bat!
becoming a Microsoft Trusted Partner in July this year.

I started rejecting mail from 'The Bat' well over a year ago. Of all
the mail received with "^X-Mailer:.*The Bat!", all were spam.

I still check the logs weekly and that has not changed. My logs show
that I have only received 3 this month though.

1 The Bat! (v2.00.0) 17:40:03
1 The Bat! (v3.0.1.33) 17:40:02
1 The Bat! (v3.51) 17:40:02

Wayne

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