Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:29:49 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur_Ivarsson?= <totii@est.is> Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New era of spam ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971210141639.15588A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <348EFB42.54D46A87@est.is>
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On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Žoršur Ivarsson wrote: > I received this today and I am not very happy, I have been getting > something like this last days directly to my primary mail address that > is only used for private mailing. > > From: <HappyAgent2@USA.NET> > To: <thivars@est.is> > Subject: Publicity agents are your friends. > X-UIDL: a0a3aeb8941e9db80d8e2c74e0cd629b I've been using procmail and junk.filter to dump spam into a seperate folder, leaving the rest of it in my inbox. I've got it tuned to the point that out of 5800 saved messages I ran through it, it correctly identified all 208 spam messages, and only identified 8 of the non-spam as spam. In fact, I almost welcome an email getting through the filter, so I can tune the filter even better. So far, there are two people on the freebsd lists that use usa.net or aol.com addresses that aren't sending email from those services, so the program cans them, but to me that's acceptible, since much of the spam is forged hotmail.com/juno.com/usa.net/aol.com and my filters are pretty good at catching that stuff.
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