Re: This Weekend I am Mostly......

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:10:34 -0000, "hatty"
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>"Dale Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:14:45 -0000, "hatty"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> >going here
>> >
>> >www.inukshuk.org.uk/
>> >
>> >hatty
>> >btw if you have emailed me in the last 3/4 months and got no reply - its
>cos
>> >I have been rather over enthusiastic in setting my filtery thingy to try
>and
>> >avoid all these spam offers of shiney new penii.
>>
>> Mine's kind of working fine. Found and quarantined 400 odd spams in 3
>> days!!!. Dunno how many were false positives but the usual Hard House
>> over-hypedy-hype-promotion gets it right in the neck. And a good job
>> too.
>>
>> Whilst most people sends nice informative text only posts, the hypey
>> house crew send html/jpg/flash ridden emails sent via dodgy mass
>> mailing apps.
>>
>> Not telling who (you probably can already guess) but a well known hard
>> house crew achieved a 19.5 SpamAssassin score with one of their posts
>> (most spam is around the 5-8 mark and that includes the
>> go-faster-stripe willy ads). According to SpamAssassin, they used just
>> about every spam cliche in the book.
>
>I am running windoze and use outlook express (I know, I know, but swords are
>not so shiny with that beardy linux nonsense) so filtering means I have a
>Real Friends folder  and then just delete my entire inbox after a cursary
>glance to see if I recognise any addy. I managed to set it to put all the
>virus alerts from globalnet in the deleted items wotsit. (which have almost
>become spam in themselves) I tired setting it to delete any emails with the
>words "viagra" "webcam" and "teens" but it didnae work.
>
>What is spam assassin?

It's an antispam program that works out what's spam is by giving loads
of little things a score depending on how much it appears in spam.
It's also got some of magic 'learning' program which when you feed it
all the emails that it made mistakes on, it alters the scores (or
makes new ones up) so that it's better the next time.

It's on the sorted.org server (which collects my email) so it catches
99% of the spam even before I get to download it. Obviously with the
PC version you still have to download all the spam but at least you
can set up Outlook to move the crap into Spam folders automatically.

The PC version is called sa-proxy. You can download a copy from
http://www.statalabs.com/. It's a bit fiddly to set up but once you've
got it working it's easy to adjust.


>Its gone very quiet round here - everyone given up clubbing and taken up
>basket weaving or summat I guess.

Maybe they've finally realised it's more fun doing it than talking
about it.

A lot of the chat has gone to more specific web forum sites (not a fan
of web forums myself) but at least they stop the 'drive by' trollers.

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