Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:26:06 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:14474 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:26:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:31:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Rik van Riel cc: Manik Raina , Willy Tarreau , Jim Roland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: The spam problem. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1310 Lines: 33 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 Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). The US military has given us many words, FUBAR, SNAFU, now ENRON. Yes, top management were graduates of West Point and Annapolis. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/