Angst

[Harold L Hunt II]

I have noticed that SpamAssassin has been letting more spam through 
lately as well.  The spammers have started to get a little smarter.  It 
seems that the spams with the randomness at the beginning or the end of 
the subject line are getting through most often.

Oh well... I am pretty damn impressed with the quality of the spam 
blocking for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com.  No need to do anything more.

Harold

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:59:15AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
>>Christopher,
>>
>>Imperfect filtering.
>>
>>If you only knew how many came in but were deflected.
>>
>>Chris F. What's the typical daily rejected spam count these days?
> 
> 
> I haven't run the numbers recently but here are the figures as of
> 2003-03-29:
> 
> Spam Blocked:
>    
>       1 RBLed: SpamHaus
>       2 local deny
>       7 RBLed: OsirusSoft
>      10 RBLed: ORDB
>      15 RBLed: DSBL
>      24 local subject
>      57 owner mail
>      80 no recipient
>     142 invalid from
>     180 global sender
>     186 too many recipients
>     232 invalid email address
>     250 RBLed: OsiruSoft
>     474 global body
>    1434 RBLed: SpamCop
>    2372 global from
>    2736 global deny
>    3888 no listname
>    4728 global subject
>   -----
>   16818
> 
> total blocked by RBL = 1717
> total messages = 60223
>   
> Spam percentage 28%
> 
> Most of these are getting through spamassassin for me, too.
> There seems to be a big increase in spam recently.  I'm noticing
> it on my personal email, as well.
> 
> I do add each and every spam message that I see to our filters.
> I block the specific address, add YA regex to our subject filters,
> when possible add a regex to the body filters, and, when possible
> add a generic "block this regex in an email address" also.
> 
> cgf