[ctw] Re: ASSP email interface--blocking "Pennystock" spam by subject?

  • From: TR Shaw <tshaw@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:36:35 -0400

the email interface will allow you to send and then accumulate in bayesian. You 
can also just copy .emls into the appropriate directory and they force run 
rebuild.

On Jun 22, 2013, at 2:14 PM, aklist wrote:

> Hi: Just a quick question about the spam-reporting interface on ASSP 1.9x.
> 
> Does reporting spam do anything beyond adding/removing email addresses from 
> the white/blacklist?
> 
> For example does reporting spam affect the bayesian dB or do anything to 
> prevent additional spam coming from different email addresses from getting 
> through?
> 
> If not, is there any way to do that through the email interface, so that 
> spammy subject lines are automatically added to the BombRE files or something 
> like that?
> 
> I am receiving tons of identical, or nearly identical, "pennystock" spam 
> which of course is always from different compromised senders/hosts.
> 
> I've enabled the BombSubjectRE with DoBombSubjectRe set to "score", and I've 
> been manually adding some persistent subject lines manually to the 
> "file:files/bombsubjectre.txt" with a score of "0.9", but I'm not sure if 
> this is an effective way to try to block the spam, or if there's a better way?
> 
> TIA, AK
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