> > I'm getting damn tired of getting 50-75 spams per day in my inbox and I
> > don't even use my email address on websites to post.
I'm pretty satisfied with the spam filtering, though i have
a *specific* observation about some fellows who claim to be
related to related to big people (or former big people) in
Africa and want us to transfer some money for them.
Now , these mails keep making rounds on this list, though
they've improved my knowlege of African power politics
somewhat, and improved my who's who in Africa, i would
really like it if we could shut the spammer up.
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Manik Raina wrote:
> Now , these mails keep making rounds on this list, though
> they've improved my knowlege of African power politics
> somewhat, and improved my who's who in Africa, i would
> really like it if we could shut the spammer up.
Little chance. These messages are generally written in such
a way that there are no useful regexps to distinguish the 419
spam from legitimate email.
I think spamassassin catches about half of the 419 scams, maximum.
kind regards,
Rik
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Manik Raina wrote:
>
> > Now , these mails keep making rounds on this list, though
> > they've improved my knowlege of African power politics
> > somewhat, and improved my who's who in Africa, i would
> > really like it if we could shut the spammer up.
>
> Little chance. These messages are generally written in such
> a way that there are no useful regexps to distinguish the 419
> spam from legitimate email.
>
> I think spamassassin catches about half of the 419 scams, maximum.
>
Blacklist the whole country. At the risk of receiving probably one
or, maybe two, flames from Nigeria, I doubt that there is any
legitimate email from that country at all. So called businessmen
and government personnel from that country, dress in "clown suits".
That should be a hint.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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> Blacklist the whole country. At the risk of receiving probably one
> or, maybe two, flames from Nigeria, I doubt that there is any
> legitimate email from that country at all. So called businessmen
> and government personnel from that country, dress in "clown suits".
> That should be a hint.
1. That's the most offensively stupid thing I've heard in quite
some time. I'd really be much happier if we blacklisted your
email address instead.
2. What makes you think they all still come from Nigeria?
Martin.
> Now that I have your attention.
No, now you have an entry in my killfile
M.
> > Now that I have your attention.
>
> No, now you have an entry in my killfile
and we saw hitler too.
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Little chance. These messages are generally written in such a way
> that there are no useful regexps to distinguish the 419 spam from
> legitimate email.
use a procmail scoring filter, case sensitive, and score a la:
* 5^6 ([nN]igeria|[Aa]bacha|[zZ]imbabwe|[mM]ugabe)
* 10^6 (MUGABE|MILLION|DOLLARS|NIGERIA|ABACHA|ZIMBABWE)
most of my mail will start with a default score of at least -50. and
above catches 90ish% of 419 spam to me. no reason why spamassassin
couldnt do this too. (presuming it has weighted scoring like
procmail).
[paul@fogarty tmp]$ wc -l ~/.procspam
493 /home/paul/.procspam
and i plan to add the multi-k lines nl.linux.org anti-spam regexps to
it some time too. :)
> Rik
regards,
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