[antispam-f] Re: New spam technique

  • From: Harriet Bazley <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:44:42 +0100

On 4 Oct 2006 as I do recall,
          Dave Barnett wrote:

> In a recent message           Harriet Bazley=20
> <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > A new type of spam is making its way past Antispam - and past
> > Spamstamp's subsequent filtering - by posing as mailing list traffic:=

> >=20
> > [snip]
> >=20
> Have you had many of these?   SpamStamp may need to see a few before=20
> it picks up this new genre.
>=20
I suspect it will take an awful lot to counterbalance 682 'ham'
occurrences of the 'mailing-list' header, given that all the bogus list
addresses are different... but we'll see.

<checks today's spambin haul>

Oh, it has!   :-)

*spamstamp -check RAM::RamDisc0.$.Message9 -verbose
 1 :99.90% :      28 : clisk
 2 :99.90% :      12 : mx-man
 3 :99.90% :      12 : worldgain
 4 :99.90% :      12 : i'n'c'h'e's
 5 :99.90% :      12 : noticable
 6 :98.58% :      13 : studied
 7 :98.58% :      13 : we=92ll
 8 :2.68% :    1266 : precedence
 9 :97.20% :       7 : received-spf
10 :96.65% :       6 : ezmlm
11 :96.16% :      16 : satisfaction
12 :4.06% :     824 : list-unsubscribe
13 :4.22% :    1266 : mailing
14 :4.47% :     746 : bulk
15 :4.60% :    3184 : list
Spam!
Score: 100.00%
*

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Harriet Bazley                     =3D=3D  Loyaulte me lie =3D=3D

Many are called, few are chosen.  Fewer still get to do the choosing.

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