[Mimedefang] Anyone seeing sneaky spam?

[Dave Williss]

I don't normally reply to my own messages, but...

How's this for a spam detecting rule:  Run the whole message through
a spell check and give it a score proportional to the percentage of
misspelled words.  This would be a slow check, might be worth it
on some systems.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Williss" <dwilliss at microimages.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Anyone seeing sneaky spam?


> I've been getting Spam where they are going out of their way to put
> extra spaces and punctuation in the middle of words to prevent matching.
> I got one the other day for "In k-je t car tridges".
>
> You'd think the bastards would figure out that if people are blocking
> the stuff it's because they don't want it and going around the filter will
> just make people mad.
>
>  -- Dave Williss
> ------
> Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
>    for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
> To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:50 AM
> Subject: [Mimedefang] Anyone seeing sneaky spam?
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am getting reports from customers of spam sneaking past SpamAssassin.
> > It looks like some ratware is specifically targetting SA, and putting
> > things in the e-mail that trigger rules with large negative scores.
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this?  Unfortunately, it was bound to happen, and
> > will if it hasn't yet. :-(
> >
> > --
> > David.
> >
> >
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