Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
       Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 11:48:57AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > You could also flag a very short message that contains a URL and is not
> > a reply to an existing thread - I can't think of a legitimate post to
> > LKML fitting this pattern.
> 
> Blocking emails containing URLs pointing to domains registered
> less than a week ago would block most of the recent spams.

unless they changed pattern the past week this wouldn't work... two weeks 
ago the domains from the 1-liner porn spams were registered 3 or 4 months 
ago.  i checked a dozen+ of them looking for anything useful for 
filtering.

if you visited the urls they lead to the same web page text -- something 
so obviously a porn front-door even bayes could have got it right.  (i.e. 
"are you 18?").

it sure would be nice if posting were subscribers-only.

-dean
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