***SPAM***? [was Re: [SGVLUG] Miss Bobblehead 2.0 (?)]

Emerson, Tom (*IC) Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com
Wed Jan 9 17:14:59 PST 2008


> -----Original Message----- Of Christopher Smith
> matti wrote:
> > Spam detection software, running on the system "postman", has 

So I see you are using spamassassin...

> > Content analysis details:   (5.4 points, 5.0 required)
> >
> >  pts rule name              description
> >  --- ---------------------- ------------------------------------
> >  5.0 BOTNET                 Relay might be a spambot or virusbot

Hmmm... This is the one that triggered it for the most part (the rest
pretty much cancels out as it only nets +0.4)  I suspect this means that


> [botnet0.8,ip=67.43.162.226,rdns=mail.realtybrokeroffice.com,m
> aildomain=sgvlug.net,baddns]

Somehow the server we use got blacklisted?  (I seem to recall this
happened 6 months ago or more?)  Of course, I also suspect that one of
the things "RealtyBroker" does is sell stuff on the internet, which in
turn means advertising, to some degree, via e-mail.  (presumably to
people who are interested in receiving the information they have to
sell...)  People do tend to forget that they signed up for something
when they no longer need it, and eventually they start reporting it as
"spam"

> >  2.6 REPTO_QUOTE_YAHOO      Yahoo! doesn't do quoting like this

No, but Matti does... ;)

> Interesting eh? When I first saw that this message was tagged 
> as spam, I assumed it was the "free " and "MS dev studio" 
> bits that were triggering it, but the bayesian filter bits of 
> Spam Assassin was the one part saying "this isn't spam". Any 
> ideas about the rest folks? The "REPTO_QUOTE_YAHOO" one in 
> particular is amusing.

Just like I change the outlook "standard 5-line reply block" to 
   "----- original message ----- of <whomever>..."

[and inner-post for the most part, though I'll top-post when it's
trivial...]


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