[Mimedefang] Catching the porn spams

[Jason Gurtz]

On 9/7/2004 19:39, Jeff Rife wrote:

> On 7 Sep 2004 at 17:04, Jim McCullars wrote:
> 
>>    How are other people blocking this stuff?  Even the SARE rulesets
>> are not catching it. 
> 
> Try the SpamCop URI SpamAssassin ruleset.  It catches URLs in the body 
> that match sites that are advertised through SPAM.

Just to add some of my personal experiences with this.  It works great!
 However, I've found that modifying the SA score up from the default 3
to 4 helps greatly because almost no borderline spam hits these rules.

With a well trained SA and a bit of judicious whitelisting I keep my
spamscore set at 4.

> This is all the extra rules I use, and I don't get much porn SPAM at 
> all:
> 
> 70_sare_genlsubj0.cf
> 70_sare_oem.cf
> 70_sare_ratware.cf
> 70_sare_specific.cf
> 72_sare_bml_post25x.cf
> 99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf
> bogus-virus-warnings.cf
> sober_g.cf
> spamcop_uri.cf
> tripwire.cf
> 
> Use RulesDuJour (and the nice front end "My RulesDuJour") to keep all 
> these updated in a timely mannner.

I'll have to check these all out.

Cheers,

~Jason

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