On Tue, 20 May 1997, era eriksson wrote:
On a tangential note, while all this is fine and dandy, it will
probably be a good idea to think about some tactics of your own. If
two or three major recipe collections are used by most folks, it will
make a lot of sense to the spammers to make sure +their+ spam is not
caught by the Collected Wisdom of these publicly available filters.
Hence, it would be prudent to try to think up some creative blocks of
your own, and be a bit sparing about sharing them publicly.
I've looked at some of the sites mentioned in the previous messages and
did not see anything that searches the body of the message for spam
patterns. When searching the headers, I think it would be nice to have a
regularly udpated shared list which prevents spammers from repeatedly
spamming. For this, the tools listed in previous messages are very nice
because they seem to be constantly updated. I've only seen one site that
searches the text for patterns using perl.
The "The Spam Bouncer" is nice because it bounces messages with
instructions on how to get through spam filter using a password. I like
the idea behind this as it allows users to get through who may not be
spam. Granted, it also allows spammers to do the same but that would
require them to read my reply in detail. The "spam bouncer," however, is
harder to adjust than other tools because of its single file nature.
URL - http://shell3.ba.best.com/~ariel/nospam/
As for me, I have used www.pobox.com for my personal mail and they have a
built in filtering system which tags my mail as possible junk. It has
caught almost all my mail. I couple this with personal procmail receipe
to sort junk to a file read very infrequently.
- Liston
System Administrator
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
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