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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Ramprasad <ra...@netcore.co.in> on 2006/07/15 11:35:34 UTC
Why is there so much hype behind Image spam
First it was Iron-port , now postini.
http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/88975.html
Is Image spam really that BIG. I am missing something. My image spams
are getting caught by the BL's ( touchwood )
I think these companies are trying to keep up the hype for their own
marketing.. or should I expect a huge deluge of Image spam this weekend
Thanks
Ram
Re: Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam
Posted by Nigel Frankcom <ni...@blue-canoe.net>.
I'd have said the tools were the spammers and the image spams their
implements - but that'd just be semantics :-}
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:08:51 -0700, "Loren Wilton"
<lw...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> marketing.. or should I expect a huge deluge of Image spam this weekend
>
>Maybe. Who knows.
>
>Image spam has been increasing drastically in the last few months. It is
>much harder to detect than normal spams, and if spammers weren't so
>incompetent in general it would be even harder than it is.
>
>Since spammers want to get their message through no matter what, and since
>most anti-spam solutions have become moderately good with network tests, it
>is only logical that they try to find some new way around the system. Image
>spams seems to be this year's tool.
>
> Loren
Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam
Posted by Loren Wilton <lw...@earthlink.net>.
> marketing.. or should I expect a huge deluge of Image spam this weekend
Maybe. Who knows.
Image spam has been increasing drastically in the last few months. It is
much harder to detect than normal spams, and if spammers weren't so
incompetent in general it would be even harder than it is.
Since spammers want to get their message through no matter what, and since
most anti-spam solutions have become moderately good with network tests, it
is only logical that they try to find some new way around the system. Image
spams seems to be this year's tool.
Loren
Re: Whitelist_subject and Blacklist_Subject
Posted by z3r0 <ki...@hotmail.com>.
Hello
Would it work if add to user_prefs this line
whitelist_subject good subject
I mean will that give me -100 score if an email comes with good subject, in
subject?
My question is about validity of writing that in user_prefs file.
Dhawal Doshy wrote:
>
> John Horne wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm guessing here that this is an SA 3.1 thing (subject whitelisting)?
>> We are running 3.0.6.
>>
>> My question though is does whitelisting something cause SA to abort
>> trying the other tests?
>
> That (aborting other tests) is called short-circuiting and doesn't exist
> in SpamAssassin releases except on the dev lists as a discussion (and
> possibly a POC). So no, the other tests won't abort.. but the
> whitelisting score (default -100) ought to override the score of the
> other tests.
>
> - dhawal
>
>
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Re: Whitelist_subject and Blacklist_Subject
Posted by Dhawal Doshy <dh...@netmagicsolutions.com>.
John Horne wrote:
[SNIP]
> Hello,
>
> I'm guessing here that this is an SA 3.1 thing (subject whitelisting)?
> We are running 3.0.6.
>
> My question though is does whitelisting something cause SA to abort
> trying the other tests?
That (aborting other tests) is called short-circuiting and doesn't exist
in SpamAssassin releases except on the dev lists as a discussion (and
possibly a POC). So no, the other tests won't abort.. but the
whitelisting score (default -100) ought to override the score of the
other tests.
- dhawal
Re: Whitelist_subject and Blacklist_Subject
Posted by John Horne <jo...@plymouth.ac.uk>.
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:57 +0530, Ramprasad wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 14:04 -0300, Claudia Burman wrote:
> > I've googled and I searched the list archives but I can't find
> > information on this.
> > How do you use the whitelist subject and the blacklist subject plugin?
> > Where do yo write the blacklist or the whitelist?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Claudia Burman
> > El Bolsón, Patagonia Argentina
>
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Plugin_WhiteListSubject.html
>
> just put in your local.cf ( or wherever you want to )
>
>
> whitelist_subject good subject
> blacklist_subject spammy subject
>
> Assuming you have the subject module loaded in SA
>
Hello,
I'm guessing here that this is an SA 3.1 thing (subject whitelisting)?
We are running 3.0.6.
My question though is does whitelisting something cause SA to abort
trying the other tests? In our case we tend to have senders, and
sometimes subjects, that we want to allow through. To that extent we
don't need/want SA to carry out any other tests, as by whitelisting them
we are saying we don't care about the message just let it through. It
seems a waste of the servers (and network) resources to carry out a load
of tests when we know, by doing the whitelist tests first, that we want
the message delivered unmarked.
Regards,
John.
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E-mail: John.Horne@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
Re: Whitelist_subject and Blacklist_Subject
Posted by Ramprasad <ra...@netcore.co.in>.
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 14:04 -0300, Claudia Burman wrote:
> I've googled and I searched the list archives but I can't find
> information on this.
> How do you use the whitelist subject and the blacklist subject plugin?
> Where do yo write the blacklist or the whitelist?
>
> Thanks
> Claudia Burman
> El Bolsón, Patagonia Argentina
http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Plugin_WhiteListSubject.html
just put in your local.cf ( or wherever you want to )
whitelist_subject good subject
blacklist_subject spammy subject
Assuming you have the subject module loaded in SA
Thanks
Ram
Whitelist_subject and Blacklist_Subject
Posted by Claudia Burman <cb...@elbolson.com>.
I've googled and I searched the list archives but I can't find
information on this.
How do you use the whitelist subject and the blacklist subject plugin?
Where do yo write the blacklist or the whitelist?
Thanks
Claudia Burman
El Bolsón, Patagonia Argentina