[ale] OT : SpamAssassin becoming inefective

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sat Mar 27 21:46:46 EST 2004


I think there needs to be a rule to filter out subjects that make no
sense ;)  

I get many spam messages that have subject lines that have no sense to
them.

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 15:11, Thomas Wood wrote:
> James,
> 
> Subscribe to SA-Talk off the spammassin website.  There are tweaked 
> rulesets that take care of stuff like that so you don't have to 
> re-event the regex to kill those.
> 
> wood
> On Mar 27, 2004, at 2:26 PM, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 13:36, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> >> That's actually the version (2.63) that I'm using.  My setup is pretty
> >> much an out of the box setup (I've added some blacklist / whitelists,
> >> and just recently cranked the required score down to 4.7).  The weird
> >> thing is, everything was working great until about 2 weeks ago (the 
> >> VAST
> >> majority of spam was getting caught).  Now, the ones that are making 
> >> it
> >> through are scoring really low, around 1 or 2 points.
> >>
> > Misspellings and extra spaces and punctuation are killing it. I have
> > been seeing the same thing. Stuff like:
> >
> > \/,ia G:rA
> >
> > n  a  k  e  d
> >
> > seem to throw it off completely.
> > -- 
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> >
> > GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
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