Re: Sex spam again on the list

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Martin Zobel-Helas on 09/09/07 21:08, wrote:
> [1] http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200709091425

Interesting collection of recipes, unfortunately no Knodel mit 
Champignonrahmsosse :(


> [2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-listmaster/trunk/spamassassin_config/?rev=0&sc=0

I would be very interested to know what the discussion about blacklisting or 
greylisting involved.

I heard a colleague once describe a spam IP blacklist filter maintained by a 
community of spam 'reporters' who submitted spam emails to the server. Each 
reporter had their own 'effectiveness rating' and once enough 'effective people' 
had reported the spam, the email was scanned for the advertising website IP and 
this went into the filter applied to all incoming mail.

I know this would never catch image spam advertising hot stocks, but it would 
certainly take out the others and always seemed to me to be a better bet than 
dynamic filters.

Regards
Adam