SPAM on the mailing list

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 22.03.2004 schrieb John Thompson um 04:43:

> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:29:12 -0600
> Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > There was some discussion in days past about reasons for not using
> > HTML email.
> > 
> > Has anyone noticed that there seem to be a LOT of spam messages making
> > it thru the mailing list now?
> 
> Is it really spam, or just messages that are being tagged as spam?  I've not seen any
> blatant spam on the list, but I did notice some messages being dumped by my filter.
> These turned out to be legitimate messages, but with a " X-RedHat-Spam-Warning:"
> header that made my procmail toss it out.  
> 
> For what it's worth, this message from you was tagged by the list server with a spam
> level of over 9, and I usually dump anything over 5:
> 
> X-RedHat-Spam-Warning: 9.093 (*********) BAYES_99, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,
> 	RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS

Yes, the Redhat system is tagging mail with it's SPAM factor. While I
ask myself for what characteristics the mail from Jeff gets 99% by the
Bayes checks. The two last test matches come from bad relay checks and
the second is a check for typical Spammer addresses (like foo666). Most
SPAM points come from Bayes.

Speaking about real SPAM, I do not see any of it in here for now. Not
even 1 today and can't remember for any before.

Alexander


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