{SPAM?} Re: {SPAM?} Re: [SLUG] {SPAM?} The spam tag

From: Robert Snyder (res03q8w@gte.net)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 00:35:17 EDT


Ian Blenke wrote:

> Robert Snyder wrote:
>
>> Brian Coyle wrote:
>>
>>> It might be NKS rewriting the subject based on the SA score...
>>
>>
> All mail through NKS is filtered through our MailAssistants to tag
> spam, block viruses, and otherwise pre-treat email for ourselves and
> our customers (we quite happily eat our own dogfood ;) The
> SpamAssassin score is but once piece in the overall weighting and
> identification of potential spam.
>
>> Yeah but all my mail sent into the slug list....
>>
>> Could it be that NKS system flagging my email address maybe as it is
>> a wierd one that I would personally think was a spoofed email if did
>> not know verizon.
>>
>> I mean res03q8w@gte.net does seem a little wierd looking but that my
>> isp email address.
>>
>>>> X-NKS-MailAssistant-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=11.488,
>>>> required
>>>> 6, FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS 0.26, FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS3 3.25,
>>>> RATWR10_MESSID 0.65, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 2.60,
>>>> RCVD_IN_MAPS_DUL 1.00,
>>>> RCVD_IN_NJABL 0.10, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP 3.54, RCVD_IN_SORBS
>>>> 0.10)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> The weighting threshold is 6, the message had a score of 11.488. The
> one you are really questioning is the following default SpamAssassin
> rule:
>
> # idea from Robert Menschel <RMSA@Menschel.net>
> header FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS3 From:addr =~
> /^[a-z]+\d+[a-z]+\d+[a-z]+\w*\@/i
> describe FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS3 From: contains numbers mixed in
> with letters
>

> While this does add 3.25 to your potential score, it doesn't top a
> score of 6 from this alone.
>
Well I cant change my email.... Isnt it why there are things called
white list.

> If you look closer, you will see the various RCVD_IN matches as well.
> Apparently, your IP netblock is listed in various spam blacklists -
> particularly the various public dialup lists. These lists are
> maintained for transient IP blocks (typically DHCP blocks or PPP
> dialup banks) that rotate through customers on an ongoing basis,
> causing much headache as spammers come and go using those IP addresses.
>
> Most of the weighting here is due to your ISP's netblock being
> blacklisted on these lists.
>
> - Ian
>
>
Yeah Verizon stuck kept moving my net block around ..... I dont like it
as it has become a pain in the butt with email.

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