At 07:51 2000-01-25 +0900, JM wrote:
Does anyone have a intelligent script to filter this
Check one of the various searchable procmail archives. Several have been
posted. Mechanisms using scoring based on a number of frequent elements in
spam subjects can prove reasonably reliable.
That would be too easy and maybe risky.
Careful selection of the criteria, and possible green-listing of friends
and associates who may be prone to trigger them ("uh, Mum, one or two
exclamation points is quite enough").
As with RBL mechanisms, some casualaties from friendly fire can be
expected. If however, they blast a large majority of spam, you might find
it to be an acceptable solution (and here at least, nobody is dying as a
result of friendly fire).
Not urgent but if all mailing lists had such a
system, it would be interesting to see what
The single best thing that could be done for the procmail list is to make
it bounce submissions from non-subscribers. Next to that, it should retain
the ORIGINAL headers, rather than truncating them at the server.
> I made $15,000 last month!
[snip]
Here's a pointer - we didn't want it the first time, and we sure as heck
don't want ANOTHER copy of it. Trim your posts, lest YOUR address be
identified as a spammer by a script that matches content keywords to the
poster.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Post Box 2395 / San Rafael, CA 94912-2395