[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Phil Stracchino]

Michael Parson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:00:41AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> On that note, has anyone noticed a huge increase in SPAM, especially
>> SPAM that gets past filtering, in the last month or two?  I'm getting
>> hammered and am starting to have to spend a lot of time deleting it on
>> at least two primary accounts I use.
> 
> I had to go searching for some new rulesets for SpamAssassin about 6-8
> weeks ago, I started to see an increase in the stock spams, the new
> trick is to include sections out of really old books that you can find
> on the Gutenburg project and attach a set of GIF images that assemble
> into a stock-pump ad.  They were getting SA scores of just under 4.0,
> which is where I have my limit set to.  SARE was able to give me some
> rules that now catch that.

I haven't had any of these make it past DSpam yet.



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