Kinda funny, This browser had failed the test and been blocked from using the site. Found a direct link past the tester and was able to load up thier page.
Just goes to show you, everything is just a measure that is able to be bypassed.
Unfortunately no anti-spam solution is perfect. I don't actually immediately delete those e-mails. They go into my spam folder, which about once a day or so I check and empty. So if it looks like something I'm expecting or doesn't look like spam I will open it to verify. If after verification I see that you are being trapped by one of my spam filters I whitelist your e-mail address.
I have quite a few people who send to me via the same method you describe and I just whitelist thier addresses.
One thing I would like to recommend is not to send those e-mails to/dev/null if you are worried about losing legitimate e-mail. Send it to a spam folder then do a quick scan manually to make sure only spam was caught.
The best software is only a poor second replacement for the human's ability to filter out spam.
Once you get a well worked ruleset for your spam filter they can start catching alot of spam while letting through the non-spam.
No solution is fool proof, they will always be making better and better fools.
Actually, I use spambouncer to filter my e-mail after I run the e-mail through my custom filters. I've been considering making my custom filters available for anyone to use, but I'm not sure anyone is interested. With most people going the way of SpamAssassin, procmail filters seem to be dying.
Mixing Spambouncer with a couple DNSBL's I'm down to about 1 spam message per *MONTH* in my inbox. Everything else gets filtered to my spam folder. When i do get that one e-mail in my inbox I just forward it to the maintainer of spambouncer and she adds another filter to catch the person who sent that one.
While it is true that just dropping HTML can cause issues, you can still capture alot of spam by filtering on HTML e-mail without a CHARSET.
:0 f * ^Content-type: text/html * ! html; charset= * ! from hotmail | ${FORMAIL} -A"X-Spammers: text/html only message"
The above has *NEVER* given me a false positive in over 9 months of use.
Also, I use 3 rules that block Fake Netscape/Hotmail/Yahoo e-mails. Basically, if the e-mail has a from address from either of those but isn't really from thier servers they get tossed as well.
The person they are attempting to get a wiretap on is *NOT* on trial. It's evidance collection, and there has to be probably cause (Well, unless probable cause is lied about...)
This is not a violation of the 6th Amendment.
Re:OMG! A sucker *is* born every minute!!!!
on
Spam Doesn't Work?
·
· Score: 1
Actually, recently a Daily Show report said that the rate at which suckers are born is slowing. It is expected to reach one sucker ever 2.5 minutes in 2005. The highest rate in which suckers were born was during the babyboom, when something close to a sucker every 18 seconds.
But the in-depth reporting done by the Daily Show did conver this within the last couple weeks, and the number isn't one sucker each minute.
It is possible, but *most* of the people running the spam lists such as DNSBL's have a clue as to whats what and will not put those type of issues into the blocking lists.
BTW: That brings up another point, never never never trust a spam From: Header, you should always track it down to the system sending the spam, not rely on what the From: Header says.
I've been using spambouncer for quite a long time and I've found that it catches more spam than Spam Assassin does.
As with any anti-spam measure you have to keep an eye on it when you set it up that everything is working and you aren't blocking legitimate mail. Any anti-spam software you use will either let some spam through, or catch legitimate mail. Add some procmail scripts to catch any mailing list mail you are on into thier folders, block To: Friend@Public.com and the like and you have a pretty robust system.
I've also found that blocking messages with malformed headers helps alot on spam... For example, the following Procmail recipe blocks all messages that are HTML only without a charset, which is common on spam mailings, and has never caught a legitimate mail for me:
* ^Content-type: text/html * ! html; charset= * ! from hotmail | ${FORMAIL} -A"X-Spammers: text/html only message"
I wouldn't. I'd be willing to bet the people who track down the spam know when an IP is spoofed and when to ignore it. The majority of spam coming from Korea and China are through open relay's.
You can actually do this to make it better for the good guys, while hurting the bad guys. Use a fake address for everything, but make sure you select to opt-out of everything they want to send. If they still use the address they are a bad guy and get a bad address, if they are a good guy they won't use that bad address.
Actually, there is a hotdog vender who makes some pretty good money who comes to the office during lunch time. I can only guess that it gives him enough money to live on, plus some.
Nah, I realize that that makes me sound as a "pompous prick." But, when not taken out of the context of my complete post, it's just a point I use that even those who *DO* spend thier time outside and doing things other than computers and games can end up in positions they do not enjoy.
The main points of my post were:
Basically what I'm getting at is that no matter what you do with your life, if it's what you really want, and you work at it and you are HAPPY
and:
As I was told by my parents, life is what you make of it. There is no one to blame but yourself if you find yourself in a place you are unhappy being.
Might have worked for you, but my time spent playing video games, taking apart my consoles and controllers for my consoles and putting them back together, along with learning how to use computers back before it was just a simple point and click to get things done in windows gave me a huge jump start in the industry. As such I'm currently making the same salary as each of my parents who have been in thier jobs for 25+ years each. And I'm only 24.
I've seen others who were the sports players and jocks working the counter at the local mini-mart. They are still single and still acting like they are in high school. I'm married with my first kid on it's way.
Basically what I'm getting at is that no matter what you do with your life, if it's what you really want, and you work at it and you are HAPPY (thats the Key IMO) with how things are going, there is no reason to say "Oh My God! Look at that guy playing Football out there, He is going to be way better than me because I enjoy playing Madden 2003 more than I enjoy playing Hold Icepack on knee for 5 hours!"
As I was told by my parents, life is what you make of it. There is no one to blame but yourself if you find yourself in a place you are unhappy being.
Actually, thats kind of the point, in XP you can't turn off the GUI, whereas on That BSD/linux box you can, thus using less resources for the GUID and more for what you will actually be using the box for.
Although, now that I post that link, i see only one is listed. I guess out of the quarter of a million people there is only one Kathleen Fent.
But we can all call and congratulate her.
Slashdot Mirror
I do hope your kidding about the "hand full" of sodium...
Yeah, it should be "handful" of LITHIUM...
What happens when the "hackers" reverse engineer this and then are able to put in false data?
Michael was doing 70, but his car only says 45....
Time to stop using Yahoo I guess...
I haven't used anything but Google in a while...even got Searchling (search MacUpdate...or Google for it) to have Google search in my OS X menu bar.
Lets see, you read this, then you stop using Yahoo! "awhile ago". Sound like you've been "Back to the Future!"
I use Yahoo! for Maps, Stock Quotes and Games. Haven't searched for anything with it since '98.
that you can't send 500k JPEGs unannounced through the post AND make them have the same effect on his front door as spam does.
I take it you've never received the full size JC Penny catalog in the mail? Now thats a big advert =)
Click here to bypass thier test.
Kinda funny, This browser had failed the test and been blocked from using the site. Found a direct link past the tester and was able to load up thier page.
Just goes to show you, everything is just a measure that is able to be bypassed.
Unfortunately no anti-spam solution is perfect. I don't actually immediately delete those e-mails. They go into my spam folder, which about once a day or so I check and empty. So if it looks like something I'm expecting or doesn't look like spam I will open it to verify. If after verification I see that you are being trapped by one of my spam filters I whitelist your e-mail address.
/dev/null if you are worried about losing legitimate e-mail. Send it to a spam folder then do a quick scan manually to make sure only spam was caught.
I have quite a few people who send to me via the same method you describe and I just whitelist thier addresses.
One thing I would like to recommend is not to send those e-mails to
The best software is only a poor second replacement for the human's ability to filter out spam.
Once you get a well worked ruleset for your spam filter they can start catching alot of spam while letting through the non-spam.
No solution is fool proof, they will always be making better and better fools.
Actually, I use spambouncer to filter my e-mail after I run the e-mail through my custom filters. I've been considering making my custom filters available for anyone to use, but I'm not sure anyone is interested. With most people going the way of SpamAssassin, procmail filters seem to be dying.
Mixing Spambouncer with a couple DNSBL's I'm down to about 1 spam message per *MONTH* in my inbox. Everything else gets filtered to my spam folder. When i do get that one e-mail in my inbox I just forward it to the maintainer of spambouncer and she adds another filter to catch the person who sent that one.
While it is true that just dropping HTML can cause issues, you can still capture alot of spam by filtering on HTML e-mail without a CHARSET.
:0
:0 Efhw
:0. yahoo\.[a-z.]+ .+by $MATCH
:0 Efhw
:0+
:0 Efhw
:0 f
* ^Content-type: text/html
* ! html; charset=
* ! from hotmail
| ${FORMAIL} -A"X-Spammers: text/html only message"
The above has *NEVER* given me a false positive in over 9 months of use.
Also, I use 3 rules that block Fake Netscape/Hotmail/Yahoo e-mails. Basically, if the e-mail has a from address from either of those but isn't really from thier servers they get tossed as well.
# hotmail-specific
:0
* ^(From|Return-Path):.+@hotmail\.com
{
&nbs p;
* ^From: ".+" <[a-z0-9_.-]+@hotmail\.com>
* ^X-OriginalArrivalTime:
* ^X-Originating-IP: \[[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+]
* ^Received: from hotmail.com \(\/...
* $ ^Message-ID: <${MATCH}.+@hotmail\.com>
{ }
| formail -A "X-Spammers: fake hotmail"
}
# yahoo-specific
:0
* ^(From|Return-Path):.+@yahoo\.[a-z]+
{
&nb sp;
* ^Message-ID: <([0-9.]+\.qmail|[0-9]+\.[0-9A-Z]+)@\/[a-z0-9-]+\
* $ ^Received: from
{ }
| formail -A "X-Spammers: fake yahoo"
}
# netscape-specific
:0
* ^(From|Return-Path):.+@netscape\.
{
* ^X-Mailer: Atlas
* ^Received: from +netscape.*MAILIN
* ^Return-Path: <\/[a-z0-9_.-]+@netscape\.[a-z.]+
* $ ^From:.*$MATCH
* $ ^Received: from $MATCH.*by [a-z0-9.-]+\.aol\.com
* ^Message-ID: <[a-z0-9]+\.[a-z0-9]+\.[a-z0-9]+@netscape\.[a-z.]
| formail -A "X-Spammers: fake netscape"
}
Those 4 rules save me a big headache.
MY GOD! A story where nitpicking grammar and spelling is *ON* topic.
This'll be a fun one to read through.
The person they are attempting to get a wiretap on is *NOT* on trial. It's evidance collection, and there has to be probably cause (Well, unless probable cause is lied about...)
This is not a violation of the 6th Amendment.
Actually, recently a Daily Show report said that the rate at which suckers are born is slowing. It is expected to reach one sucker ever 2.5 minutes in 2005. The highest rate in which suckers were born was during the babyboom, when something close to a sucker every 18 seconds.
But the in-depth reporting done by the Daily Show did conver this within the last couple weeks, and the number isn't one sucker each minute.
=)
It is possible, but *most* of the people running the spam lists such as DNSBL's have a clue as to whats what and will not put those type of issues into the blocking lists.
BTW: That brings up another point, never never never trust a spam From: Header, you should always track it down to the system sending the spam, not rely on what the From: Header says.
I've been using spambouncer for quite a long time and I've found that it catches more spam than Spam Assassin does.
As with any anti-spam measure you have to keep an eye on it when you set it up that everything is working and you aren't blocking legitimate mail. Any anti-spam software you use will either let some spam through, or catch legitimate mail. Add some procmail scripts to catch any mailing list mail you are on into thier folders, block To: Friend@Public.com and the like and you have a pretty robust system.
I've also found that blocking messages with malformed headers helps alot on spam... For example, the following Procmail recipe blocks all messages that are HTML only without a charset, which is common on spam mailings, and has never caught a legitimate mail for me:
* ^Content-type: text/html
* ! html; charset=
* ! from hotmail
| ${FORMAIL} -A"X-Spammers: text/html only message"
Your Milage May Vary
Some further differances:
Human milk comes from Human Breasts/Udders.
Cow Milk comes from Cow Breasts/Udders.
Hope that helps.
You can always give her a can of Mace and a stun gun, depending on which college she is going to of course.
I wouldn't. I'd be willing to bet the people who track down the spam know when an IP is spoofed and when to ignore it. The majority of spam coming from Korea and China are through open relay's.
You can actually do this to make it better for the good guys, while hurting the bad guys. Use a fake address for everything, but make sure you select to opt-out of everything they want to send. If they still use the address they are a bad guy and get a bad address, if they are a good guy they won't use that bad address.
Actually, there is a hotdog vender who makes some pretty good money who comes to the office during lunch time. I can only guess that it gives him enough money to live on, plus some.
Nah, I realize that that makes me sound as a "pompous prick." But, when not taken out of the context of my complete post, it's just a point I use that even those who *DO* spend thier time outside and doing things other than computers and games can end up in positions they do not enjoy.
The main points of my post were:
Basically what I'm getting at is that no matter what you do with your life, if it's what you really want, and you work at it and you are HAPPY
and:
As I was told by my parents, life is what you make of it. There is no one to blame but yourself if you find yourself in a place you are unhappy being.
Might have worked for you, but my time spent playing video games, taking apart my consoles and controllers for my consoles and putting them back together, along with learning how to use computers back before it was just a simple point and click to get things done in windows gave me a huge jump start in the industry. As such I'm currently making the same salary as each of my parents who have been in thier jobs for 25+ years each. And I'm only 24.
I've seen others who were the sports players and jocks working the counter at the local mini-mart. They are still single and still acting like they are in high school. I'm married with my first kid on it's way.
Basically what I'm getting at is that no matter what you do with your life, if it's what you really want, and you work at it and you are HAPPY (thats the Key IMO) with how things are going, there is no reason to say "Oh My God! Look at that guy playing Football out there, He is going to be way better than me because I enjoy playing Madden 2003 more than I enjoy playing Hold Icepack on knee for 5 hours!"
As I was told by my parents, life is what you make of it. There is no one to blame but yourself if you find yourself in a place you are unhappy being.
That may be true, but more people use it to play thier properly licensed Blizzard games than to play those illegal versions.
Just because it turns out that something can be used illegally doesn't mean it can only be used illegally, or is primarily used illegally.
You can hardly have a text based FPS though can you?
Check out ttyquake for all your text based FPS needs =)
2) at times HTML emails contain images located on a server. This allows them to track if a message has been read and which message.
o urisp.com"
This is exactly that, most HTML e-mail messages you get contain an image. Alot of those images are formatted in such a way like:
img src="http://www.spammersite.com/spampic.jpg?you@y
So the image display's, and they now have a list of e-mail addresses of people who looked at the message.
So now you don't even have to click anything, they know you are looking at the message just by your mail client opening the picture.
Actually, thats kind of the point, in XP you can't turn off the GUI, whereas on That BSD/linux box you can, thus using less resources for the GUID and more for what you will actually be using the box for.
So your post just helped prove the point. =)
Which one?
Although, now that I post that link, i see only one is listed. I guess out of the quarter of a million people there is only one Kathleen Fent.
But we can all call and congratulate her.