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

  • From: aklist <aklist_eims@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:40:48 -0700

On 6/22/2013 11:36 AM, TR Shaw wrote:
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.

Thanks Tom, so just sending them to "report-spam" is enough?

I had been doing that, but it didn't seem to be making much difference, although I understand the scoring may be too low to actually block the next "wave" of slightly different spam.


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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