Spam, Spam, Spam, Dole & Spam

seniorcoder writes "Check here for an article on CNN about the senate campaign of Elizabeth Dole being taken to court in North Carolina for the princely sum of $80 ($10 per piece of spam). My best regards to Ken Pugh, I hope his action is successful." $10 per email sounds fair, now I can start planning my mansion.

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I'm gonna sue me up a mini-van

[rw2]

Here's my mail log.

Everything above 5 on the graph is better than 99% likely to be spam.

I'm rich!

(BTW, I use spamssassin, it's wonderful)

Re:I'm gonna sue me up a mini-van

[rw2]

I used gnuplot to graph and procmail to manage SA.

My procmailrc contains something like this:

LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.logfile

SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject: \
| sed -e 's/[;\`\\]/ /g' \
| expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`

FROM=`formail -xFrom: \
| sed -e 's/[;\`\\]/ /g' \
| expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`

# Backup the last hundred messages. :0 c
backup :0 ci
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,100d` :0fw
| /home/wellner/bin/SpamAssassin/spamassassin -P -c /home/wellner/bin/SpamAssassin/rules

SPAM_STATUS=`grep X-Spam-Status |cut -d' ' -f3|cut -d'=' -f2 |sort -n`
MESSAGE_ID=`formail -xMessage-ID:: \
| sed -e 's/[;\`\\]/ /g' \
| expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`

DATE=`date +"%m/%d/%y %H:%M"`
nada=`echo $DATE $SPAM_STATUS $MESSAGE_ID >> $HOME/email-scores` :0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam

and my gnuplot file is:

set timefmt "%m/%d/%y %H:%M"
set format x "%m/%d"
set title "Distribution of spam values"
set xlabel "Date mail arrived"
set ylabel "Hit value"
set nolabel
set xdata time
set terminal png color
set yrange [-10:50]
plot '/home/wellner/email-scores' using 1:3 with points 20, 5 with lines 3, 7 with lines 7, 10 with lines 5

have fun.