Re: 419 spam from Nigeria
Joey Hess wrote:
> Craig Small wrote (to "listarchives@debian.org", which redirects to
> debian-www. Probably wanted listmaster instead:
> > I got quite a few of these.
> >
> > Is there any reason to accept email from Nigeria except to see the
> > variety of fraudsters out there?
>
> We should accept email from Nigeria because there are net-connected
> computers in Nigeria.
Agreed.
> > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.8 required=5.0
> > tests=LINES_OF_YELLING,OFFSHORE_SCAM,SPAM_PHRASE_05_08,
> > SUBJ_ALL_CAPS,US_DOLLARS,US_DOLLARS_2
>
> OFFSHORE_SCAM needs to score higher. When coupled with "Nigeria" it
> should probably score 5.
Before starting to change scores, we should probably use all available
spam filters, not just spamassassin. [ I'm not 100% sure, but I believe we
are still using razor v1 in lists.debian.org ].
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