-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/06 15:14, Paul E Condon wrote: > Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that > contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as > a spam message, or as any other sort of communication. I think I have > found what is going on: > > The email *does* contain a message. It is contained in a .gif or .png > or other image format file. These are not pictures of naked ladies, > but images of text that touts various penny stocks. If I didn't use > mutt, I might not have had so much puzzlement over them. I suppose > with Outlook all the user sees is the image, which is clearly spam, > but the user doesn't see what the spam filter sees, so, it seems, no > amount of filter fiddling will protect against this. What to do? Are > there new filtering techniques beyond spamassassin?
They are specifically designed to get around SA's traditional filtering process. Using sa-learn to train the Bayesian filter, along with the regular filters, helps a lot. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFGEIlS9HxQb37XmcRAl6RAKDCWjDfyoeHTetpB7RP8LIcrVDXuwCgpO/g vGeVdDBt99/LLOBx3HlZG20= =XJE3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
