Re: SPAM on the mailing list

From: John Thompson (JohnThompson_at_new.rr.com)
Date: 03/22/04

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    Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:43:36 -0600
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    On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:29:12 -0600
    Jeff Vian <jvian10@charter.net> wrote:

    > There was some discussion in days past about reasons for not using
    > HTML email.
    >
    > Has anyone noticed that there seem to be a LOT of spam messages making
    > it thru the mailing list now?

    Is it really spam, or just messages that are being tagged as spam? I've not seen any blatant spam on the list, but I did notice some messages being dumped by my filter. These turned out to be legitimate messages, but with a " X-RedHat-Spam-Warning:" header that made my procmail toss it out.

    For what it's worth, this message from you was tagged by the list server with a spam level of over 9, and I usually dump anything over 5:

    X-RedHat-Spam-Warning: 9.093 (*********) BAYES_99, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,
            RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS

    I have since adjusted my procmail recipes to accommodate for this:

    X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-103.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,
            RCVD_IN_SORBS,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=2.63
    X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on amayatra.os2.dhs.org 

    -- 
-John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)
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