Lol ... haven't seen an elipse since and this is enough of this. Rage on McDuff. On Monday 11 May 2015 14:08:15 Reindl Harald wrote: > no, you are too lazy to learn how to write score based rules, > spamassassin is not rocket science > > use a mail service with a maintained spamfilter if you are not able or > too lazy to maintain it yourself but don't ask others to work around > your intentional broken configuration > > likely some spammers now have a big smile on their face because the same > way you filter by wrong criteria someone can bypass that joke called a > filter > > Am 11.05.2015 um 14:03 schrieb Eli Wapniarski: > > You got me Reindl... I am too lazy. I have better things to do with my > > time > > then to sift through tons of junk mail to pick out the extremely few mails > > that would be good. And so yep... I'm gonna hammer rule. > > > > If I don't receive mail oh well. If you don't care to have mail received, > > oh well. Its lose / lose. > > > > On Monday 11 May 2015 13:50:15 Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Am 11.05.2015 um 13:43 schrieb Eli Wapniarski: > >>> What makes the Elipse and for that matter any use of a period inside the > >>> subject line so bad is that most filters rely on regular expressions to > >>> filter. The period is a special character in regex processors which > >>> means all. If one were to create a simple filter based on the period, > >>> they would be blocking everything. So this trick is utilized to get past > >>> those filters. > >> > >> jesus christ then give that filter some score points instead > >> unconditional block as well as train your bayes and use DNSWL with > >> negative scores > >> > >> last but not least add that line to your SA local.cf > >> whitelist_auth *@lists.fedoraproject.org > >> > >>> A manual creation of the filter which would include \. would be > >>> required. > >> > >> so what - you need to take care about escaping in general > >> > >>> Until I created the filter to block out elipses. I would get all sorts > >>> of bad mail trying to sell me all sorts of stuff that you would not want > >>> sold to you, or to visit all sorts of sites you would not want your kids > >>> to visit. So, to answer your question, yes I have blocked elipses for a > >>> very long time. I will continue to block elipses, and I am quite > >>> confident, because of this issue other aggressive filters will also > >>> block them. > >> > >> you do that because you are simply too lazy to train your filters > >> because otherwise we would not be able block that sort of mails without > >> creating hammer rules with false positives > >> > >>> You can do what you wish. I am not going to get into a trolling match > >> > >> well, you started the trolling with your "i am unable to configure a > >> sane spamfilter and so ask the world to write around it for legit mails" > >> > >>> with anyone. I am relating my experience and made a request thats all. > >>> If you choose to continue using elipses thats fine thats up to you. :) > >> > >> honestly if you would have expierience with spamfiltering you would > >> write sane score rules instead ask the rest of the world to take care > >> how to write their mails for not hit your broken configuration > >> > >>> Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>: > >>>> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 14:14 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > >>>>> Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>: > >>>>>> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 11:23 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > >>>>>>> As a result, I had to filter them out. I am sure that other > >>>>> > >>>>> aggressive > >>>>> > >>>>>>> anti spam filters will filter out those subjects as well. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Why? Is this a defining characteristic of spam? Are you also going to > >>>>>> ask the rest of the Internet not to use ellipses in Subject lines? > >>>>> > >>>>> Believe it or not.... it is. > >>>> > >>>> A quick search on this list shows over a hundred such messages over the > >>>> last few years. Similar searches on other lists show similar results. > >>>> Are you saying that all these messages have been blocked by your spam > >>>> filter? If so, you seriously need to think about changing it -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
