[ctw] Re: ASSP email interface--blocking "Pennystock" spam by subject?
- From: TR Shaw <tshaw@xxxxxxxx>
- To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:45:06 -0400
You are rebuilding the bayesian DB aren't you?
You should be getting a rebuild report every night.
Tom
On Jun 22, 2013, at 4:40 PM, aklist wrote:
> 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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