12/18 SpamAssassin failed to block 54 spam emails since yesterday. What
happened?
\_ It doesn't help that csua's version is more than half a year
old... (2.54)
\_ Yeah, since last week or so, SpamAssassin hasn't been doing
quite as well as it had been previously for me. I noticed that
the number of spams i've been getting has increased, but so
has their form. I'm hoping SpamAssassin adjusts soon to the
new spam styles.
\_ I've noticed a lot of spams with a score of 0.
Methinks spamers are testing against recent releases of SA.
\_ Duh. One of the main reasons SA is useless in the long run.
\_ yeah, just like anti-virus software is useless. Get a
clue.
\_ It's all about economics. Spammers have an economic
incentive to get that mail through, so they'll take
the time. Viruses seem to be more for the intellectual
challenge, or immature dick waving. I deal with this
stuff every day, man. --scotsman
\_ Except for those trojans which are used to insert
spam into your folder.
\_ Latest subject heading i've received:
"you have a small weeinner and need to do something"
\_ I wrote a quick tutorial on using ifile + spamassassin together.
The combo works well because if one filter misses, the other
catches it. And if both label a message spam, then you can be
quite certain that it's not a false positive.
/csua/tmp/ifile_tutorial -- mjm
\_ Thank you, but I'm confused on step 2. Where do I put these
lines?
\_ Sorry, you just run them from the command line.
You'll need at least one piece of spam to learn on,
more is better.
\_ should be labeled ifile+spamassassin+PINE |
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