Spam Catchers Block Latest Crypto-Gram

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 15, 2003 @05:48PM from the unintentional dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier sent out a note about SpamAssassin and possibly other spam filters blocking his excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter. Fortunately you can get it here (early no less!)." Schneier's email reads, in part "Tomorrow I will be sending out the February CRYPTO-GRAM, as I do on the 15th of every month. In the process of creating this month's Crypto-Gram, I discovered that SpamAssassin thinks that this issue is spam, probably because of certain links and descriptions of scams in the text. I have anecdotal evidence that other spam filters block Crypto-Gram as well. ... I'd apologize for the inconvenience, but I'm not sure what I could do to make it less so -- I don't intend to alter my content to accommodate spam filters."

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The problem with filters by markfletcher · 2003-02-15 17:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

This illustrates one of the big problems with filters. They will never be perfect, spammers are always adjusting to them (even the Bayesian ones), and the way many are implemented, they make email unreliable (by deleting suspected spam messages and not bouncing them). Blocking untrusted servers by IP address avoids these issues.
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