[antispam-f] Re: Recent Spam

  • From: Richard Porter <ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:02:09 GMT

On 27 Nov 2007 Dave Barnett wrote:

> Amongst the recent flood of spam, there are a large number that use
> the format for both 'To' and 'From' of "<first> <initial>. <last>"
> <address>.  The name part includes the double quotes, spaces and dot.
> The <initial> cycles through the alphabet.  You must have seen them,

No, I've never noticed them.

> they mostly spamvertise body part enhancement.

That's not unusual.

> My attempts to write a simple rule to delete these has, so far, eluded
> me.  As these are being sent by a new species of bot that will,
> hopefully, die before long, a User Test may be overkill.

> Any suggestions?

I get very little spam that gets past PlusNet's filtering, AntiSpam 
and SpamStamp. I just delete it and don't bother analysing it. Life is 
too short!

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