[ale] spam lists

[Dow Hurst]

I think it is the ISP your with, comcast, that must have gotten on the list or 
parts of it.  Someone mentioned something about comcast being partially 
blocked a few weeks ago on the list.  Maybe your in that block of addresses? 
I know that I am thinking before classifying email as Junk in Mozilla.  Most 
spam is noted properly right now after unlabeling a bunch of mislabeled email 
and once a week I check the Junk folder for aberrant labeling.  The emails 
with lots of words from a dictionary inserted ends up fooling the algorithms. 
  Also, the weird short spam message with long normal excerpts of stories work 
on the spam filters too,
Dow


Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:08:12 -0500
> Thomas Wood <thomaswood at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>SORBS is pretty good.  It takes effort to get on or off the list.
> 
> 
> Funny you should mention.  Just minutes ago I attempted to send mail to
> an ISP's abuse address, and found I could not because SORBS is blocking
> my specific IP for sending messages to a spamtrap address.  I have no
> idea how that happened, since I don't run a MTA and the Windows box I
> use for games is always patched and never runs IE or Outlook..  (I'm
> pretty sure none of my other boxes have been hacked and turned into spam
> relays, unless spammers have figured out how to keep the network
> activity lights on my router from blinking...)  Apparently it's not
> *that* hard to get on the SORBS list.  Just something to keep in mind if
> you want people to actually be able to, like, contact you and stuff.
> 
> Krum
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