On 9/20/06, Craig White wrote: > > Systems where bayes autolearn is active might be more accommodating > other e-mail that is similar. Familiarity breeds contempt. > > Personally, the methodology that I find most effective is to stop as > much as you can at MTA level and not accept it and then you can > effectively run spamassassin, etc. upon that which gets through. If you > control the MTA for your domain, you can very effectively limit spam. > Greylisting is huge. > > I switched a client over to my current setup and am rejecting 70% of > inbound mail at MTA level - thus it is never accepted. Really lightens > the load to do further spamassassin, virus, phishing checks. > > Junk mail filtering on individual mailboxes from an ISP can be difficult > > Craig > > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 10:45 -0700, Kenneth wrote: > > Agreed. You have to wonder though. I'm not about to waste my time > opening > > and reading an email where the subject is meaningless. Sure it gets > through > > filters but I can't imagine it gets read very much. > > > > > > > > --- Judd Pickell wrote: > > > > > I believe they do that to pass content filters. If the content covers > more > > > than just a simple idea, it will be passed through. Rather than emails > that > > > only talk about viagra or what not. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Judd Pickell > > > > > > On 9/20/06, bmike101@cox.net wrote: > > > > > > > > It is as I expected. > > > > > > > > I have another question: > > > > > > > > I always get mail with words in it that don't form sentences (such > as the > > > > example below). What is this? > > > > > > > > --- > > > > below > > > > --- > > > > > > > > sleep, paper that remember [...SNIP some of the pseudo-random > crap...] > > > > cab theater food stand the tripod. the > > > > some. a with freezing the then, cashier, > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > [...] > Greylisting is huge. The white paper for greylisting is at: http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html "see also" http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ and (this was the first hit, when searching): http://greylisting.org/ > Someone must be reading them considering that they keep sending them.. :) umm, that would be true if spammers were sensible. - - maybe sometimes they are, but it appears that a vast percentage of them, are infused with wishful thinking. It kinda reminds me of "cargo cults" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult or http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm or, just do a search for "Cargo_cult") -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com