Re: [OT] Re: The spam problem.

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Little chance.  These messages are generally written in such a way
> that there are no useful regexps to distinguish the 419 spam from
> legitimate email.

use a procmail scoring filter, case sensitive, and score a la:

* 5^6 ([nN]igeria|[Aa]bacha|[zZ]imbabwe|[mM]ugabe)
* 10^6 (MUGABE|MILLION|DOLLARS|NIGERIA|ABACHA|ZIMBABWE)

most of my mail will start with a default score of at least -50. and
above catches 90ish% of 419 spam to me. no reason why spamassassin
couldnt do this too. (presuming it has weighted scoring like
procmail).

[paul@fogarty tmp]$ wc -l ~/.procspam
    493 /home/paul/.procspam

and i plan to add the multi-k lines nl.linux.org anti-spam regexps to 
it some time too. :)

> Rik

regards,
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