[Gambas-user] List status (fwd)

[Christopher Brian Jack]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Ron Onstenk wrote:

> Interesting but when I look at spammail I see the same spam from different IP
> and with different From addresses.
> I do not get in general more spams from one special IP, then it looks to me
> that IP filtering does not filter optimal.
> Also the From: addresses are more unique instead the same.
> The Sender Address Verification my provider does works for many but not all.
>
> I'm happy to get not over 10 each day now. (fingers crossed)

I noticed that too but I also noticed that one spam will float around for
a while then a batch of new ones will come out that defy the existing
filters.  The trend I see now is messages that break Quoted-Printable
format.  I guess there are some filters that flake out and let the
technically corrupt message through and maile readers (probably made by a
big monopolistic company) that ignore the corrupted encoding.  I know in
Pine I have to go to header mode to see the message if its QP encoding is
corrupted.  More spams are starting to use this method now too.  I'm
seeing a lot of old spams reworked to use broken QP to bypass content
filters.

I could lose a good 40% of my spam if I could tell my MTA to reject
messages with non-romantic language encodings (I get a lot of Korean,
Japanese and Chinese spam -- maybe even Arabic but I don't know for sure
as it's all garbage characters to Pine when viewed in non-header mode).

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