Spam filters

[robinturner]

I am now getting so much spam I'm having to set up some pretty odd mail filters. Things going directly to the trash bin now include anything from Korea or containing common Hangul characters, anything from Romania with with the word "free", and anything with "Brittney Spears" in the subject. Obviously advertisers think I'm a Korean living in the Balkans who wants to see Brittney Spears naked. So much for snooping on people's cookies.

Comments

Spam Assasssin

[thedward.livejournal.com]

Spam Assasssin is a wonderful piece of software. I've only got 3 spam mails in my inbox since I started using it.

Re: Spam Assasssin

[solri.livejournal.com]

I had a quick look at the documentation a while ago. What I couldn't work out is whether it's server-side, or something you install in your UNIx account, or whether you can install it client-side to filter mail from you POP3 server. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I don't read documentatation properly. Maybe I've spent too long in the 'nix world, so that I actually skim the documentation first, rather than just unzipping the tarball and doing configure->make->make install.

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

In the pre-Internet days (and continuing to the present time), I would get a lot of mail that assumed I was a guy. My favorite was a pitch to subscribe to Men's Journal, which boasted on the outside envelope: "It's not for couch potatoes, mama's boys, or armchair athletes."

So I stuck it to my refrigerator with a post-it that read "Manly, yes. But I like it too!"

Guess that's the price I pay for having a gender-neutral first name.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[solri.livejournal.com]

Hah! Having written that, I get two mails, identical in all respects but for the supposed sender, and the hearders, which are "robin,Bigger breasts without surgery in 30 days" and "robin,Bigger breasts -- Men Will Look". Sorry, but I really don't go for the shemale look.

The funny thing is that the only contact was an IP number. Normally with spam, no genuine Internet contact is given, you just get a snail-mail address, presumbaly because a denial-of-service attack on a PO box would require too much stamp-licking (though I have heard of spammees getting their own back by signing up the offending company for every junk catalogue and get-rich-quick scheme they could find - if this were co-ordinated globally, the results could be devastating). However, this is a genuine IP number (I ping it, it pings back), but entering it in my browser just gets a "time-out on server). I've mailed admin@, but no reply yet.