[ale] Re: spam flood

[James P. Kinney III]

That problem is a result of the deliberate poisoning of anti-spam
filters by spammers using random blocks of dictionary words in an
attempt to crash the filters and make people turn off the anti-spam
filters.

<violent rant>
Shoot the %$^*&^ spammers in the head and post pictures of their bodies
on all the newsgroups. 
News Flash::   "Vigilante hit squads gunning for spam kings took down
another of the worlds most wanted today. This one was responsible for
sending hundreds of millions of advertisements for herbal viagra and
human growth hormone over a span of several days using worm hijacked
computers. No one attended the funeral of the last spam king gunned down
by the hit squad although millions sent emails expressing their delight
at the passing of the underworld criminal."
</violent rant>

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:53, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Now that the problem has been solved, I have a question about Mozilla:
> 
> Can you overtrain a spamblocker easily?  I had to take a bunch of mail in the 
> Junk folder, deselect it as Junk, and transfer it back to the Inbox over the 
> weekend.  Seemed all the random words in spam now and possible other spammer 
> tricks have confused the spam routines in Mozilla.
> Dow
> 
> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > I think I found the Problem. The Infinite-Monkeys RBL is broken. I
> > commented it out in Mailscanner and the spam is back to it's usual
> > (disgustingly high) level and the other stuff is no longer marked as
> > spam.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 18:22, lists at wormfishin.com wrote:
> > 
> >>The same thing started happening to me sunday night/monday morning, i'm
> >>using MailScanner but not spamassassin, Might just be a coincidence
> >>though.
> >>
> >>Nick
> >>
> >>
> >>>Does anyone know if a RBL spam list has been poisoned? Suddenly, every
> >>>email is marked as spam by spamassassin. This happening on multiple
> >>>servers.
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