Re: [SLE] OT - SA defeating thesauri

From: Gary (gv-dated-2782083.eppel_at_mygirlfriday.info)
Date: 12/31/03

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To: Bruce / Nick <suse-linux-e@suse.com>

    Hi Bruce / Nick,

    On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:15:05 -0500 UTC (12/31/2003, 10:15 AM -0600 UTC my
    time), Bruce Marshall wrote:

    B> On Wed December 31 2003 09:51 am, Nick Selby wrote:

    >> It seems that the latest spate of spam is loaded with seemingly arbitrary
    >> words to defeat the Baysian processes of SpamAssassin, such as

    >> I guess that they're doing this to increase the message size with
    >> un-spamlike words to decrease the ratio of spam-like words to non-spam-like
    >> words? Does this sound right?

    >> Anyone ... have a sense of how to defeat this strategy with current
    >> available configurable settings on SA? Spastic? Anything?

    Yes, you can turn on RBL checking in your current SA, if it is turned off.
    Using Razor and spamcop's RBLs will give you the most current, up-to-date,
    IP address blocks, as a front-line defense.

    B> Well thank you!! I never could figure out why they were dumping all that
    B> crap into their messages. That's a good explanation. And yes, it is a
    B> regular occurrence here for the spam that does make it through.

    Agreed, this is the latest adaptation made by spammers to bypass Bays
    filtering. 

    --
Gary
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