Re: Recent spam increase

2006-11-19 Thread Raquel
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:17:33 + Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michelle Konzack on 10/11/06 19:11, wrote: > > Am 2006-10-26 22:45:56, schrieb Peter Teunissen: > >> If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the > >SARE > rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spam

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-11-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Michelle Konzack on 10/11/06 19:11, wrote: Am 2006-10-26 22:45:56, schrieb Peter Teunissen: If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the SARE rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spamassassin. I use these rulesets and get very high scores on the picture spam I get. Sim

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-10-26 22:45:56, schrieb Peter Teunissen: > If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the SARE > rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spamassassin. I use these > rulesets and get very high scores on the picture spam I get. Simply > add these rules to your setup u

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-10-26 00:47:46, schrieb Mike McCarty: > Tim Post wrote: > > A: Because it reverses the normal order of conversation. > Q: Why is top-posting considered undesirable by many? > > >What I can't seem to stop is the huge influx of these "penny stock" > >spams. They're getting smarter than baye

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-11-03 Thread David Hart
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:37:46AM +, s. keeling wrote: > David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I didn't explain that fully as it didn't seem relevant to the point I > > was trying to make. I receive the vast majority of my mail directly > > by SMTP to the machine which has my personal m

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 10/30/06, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became Usenet) by just a few years. I remember this well because I was one of the lucky few to receive a Usenet feed from Univ of MD (which I piped promptly into my BBS, heavily modified WWIV).

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-30 Thread John Hasler
George Borisov writes: > On my IMAP server at home I have a set of scripts that harvest a > particular folder in the account and feed all messages to sa-learn. If a > spam slips through then I just move it into that folder and forget about > it. I do something similar. I also have my script copy

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I am not 100% certain, but I believe Usenet predates FidoNet, if you want > to talk about message boards and their equivalents. Blogging, however, is a > different animal. > Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became U

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-30 Thread George Borisov
Peter Teunissen wrote: > > > OTH, I just looked at some of my recent image spam and when I substract > the bayes score from the final score, most of it would still be tagged > as spam (I use a threshold of 5). True, but those messages that get through tend to have almost no score assigned to t

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:20 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom. > She asked me what it was. I told her people had been doing it for years > before it ever became "blogging" on BBS's through fidonet, etc. > I had a similar conversation

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:20:35AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: } On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote: } > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: } > > > Anyone remember FidoNET? } > > } > > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. } } I just had a conv

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Ed Curtis
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: > > > > Anyone remember FidoNET? > > > > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom. She asked me w

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dmitri Minaev wrote: On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Walters wrote: >>> Anyone remember FidoNET? Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.* newsgroups. For some years, I used t

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Walters wrote: >>> Anyone remember FidoNET? Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.* newsgroups. For some years, I used to run such gate (based

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-29 Thread cothrige
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Play on words, "holding it to one self" and "holding views". Point being > that not everyone is using Debian for the same reason and the rabidness that > some of the radical views are presented are quite off-putting. Not everyone > is rabidly anti-

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-29 Thread Steve Lamb
cothrige wrote: > I don't really follow you here. How does holding imply not talking? > Surely you don't make a habit of talking about topics you don't hold > views on? ;-) Play on words, "holding it to one self" and "holding views". Point being that not everyone is using Debian for the same

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-29 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > Please excuse an ignorant question: Into what software (name?) should > these rules be added? Spamassassin. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-29 Thread Marty
Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, an

Re: TOT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Steve Lamb wrote: > Chris Walters wrote: Anyone remember FidoNET? > >> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. > > Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering > if there might

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-28 Thread cothrige
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige wrote: > > Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing > > what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being > > bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the > > political or philosophi

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-28 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 29 October 2006 04:01, Steve Lamb wrote: > cothrige wrote: > > Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing > > what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being > > bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the > > political or

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
cothrige wrote: > Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing > what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being > bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the > political or philosophical nature of GNU or Linux. Holding? No. Sh

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-28 Thread cothrige
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU > > project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to > > change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil > > MicroSoft Empire, a

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-28 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: > > Anyone remember FidoNET? > > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. > > As for the original topic, in a community this large and diverse there > is bound to be disharmony. The key question is whether

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > SSMTP over non-standard ports? Doesn't much help since it drops back onto the old net. Fido (the tech, not just the net) is a completely different technology in that it doesn't need the ether, it isn't unified, it is something that anyone can participate in and there's re

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU > project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to > change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil > MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, and a triumph >

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/06 19:38, Steve Lamb wrote: > Chris Walters wrote: Anyone remember FidoNET? > >> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. > > Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread s. keeling
David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I didn't explain that fully as it didn't seem relevant to the point I > was trying to make. I receive the vast majority of my mail directly > by SMTP to the machine which has my personal mail store. Do a 'dig > tonix.org mx' (my domain) and you'll get jynn

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Walters wrote: >>> Anyone remember FidoNET? > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering if there might be a growing need for it? Not in terms of spam but in terms of privacy? Sinc

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > Then perhaps you should've made it clear that that's what you meant. > But this is beside the point. My point was quite clear. I've gone over it in the past. I never mentioned "in this conversation". I did, in fact, say it was That was your misunderstanding. > I've had

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > It proves the point that T.J. Duchene made to which you gave those > examples in reply. Here's what was said (and what you snipped from your > reply to me): Can we say... "out of context"? >> T.J. Duchene wrote: >> >>> Don't expect Outlook, Thunderbird, Mutt, Pine, or eve

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-28 21:07:35 +0100, David Hart wrote: > When I'm away from home I ssh into my home box to get mail. If that > became a problem (because, perhaps, of firewall rules), I'd probably > setup ssh to listen on port 80 as a first choice but, imap would > definitely be an option. I currently ha

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-27 11:15:56 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On a related note, according to > http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=hoshame#domsum , there are many popular > ISPs (verizon.net, rr.com etc) in US which dont care a single thing about > spam emanating from their networks. I confirm. I s

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:43:21PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-10-26 12:56:07 +0100, David Hart wrote: > > I'll be the first to admit that mutt is not ideal for reading pop > > accounts but I've found it very useful for things like testing when > > setting up pop/imap servers. > > AFA

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:43:23PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > I have no need to read the archives as I have a threaded view of this > > conversation in front of me as I write. > > Uh, doesn't help when it wasn't *IN* this conversation. But dozens of > times over the pas

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-28 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:44:52PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > Most of what you say kind of proves the OP's point. You mention 'hooks' > > which means using programs _external_ to the email client. > > Er, no. Hooks in the client does not equate to requiring a full-blow

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > Most of what you say kind of proves the OP's point. You mention 'hooks' > which means using programs _external_ to the email client. Er, no. Hooks in the client does not equate to requiring a full-blown MTA along with the problems that arise from it. -- Steve C

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > I have no need to read the archives as I have a threaded view of this > conversation in front of me as I write. Uh, doesn't help when it wasn't *IN* this conversation. But dozens of times over the past *5 years*. Hence, get thee to the archives. > I didn't realise that p

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Scott Lair
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > [about the penny-stock image spams] > >Yes, I get several a day myself. The actual "text" of the message is > >often actually an image, while the body of the message is randomly > >selected sentences or words from a collection which would make a > >Ba

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Mike McCarty wrote: [about the penny-stock image spams] Yes, I get several a day myself. The actual "text" of the message is often actually an image, while the body of the message is randomly selected sentences or words from a collection which would make a Bayesian filter delete most of my e-mail

Re: [Offtopic] Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 13:58, Pollywog wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 15:18, celejar wrote: > > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by > > > the amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a sp

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > > > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by > >

[Offtopic] Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 27 October 2006 15:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie > > operation and starts sending spam

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:00:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Walters writes: > > As for stopping spam, as we have recently seen, word lists are not going > > to be the answer, since spammers are now using images > > These rules are presently stopping most image spam here: > > > rawbody I

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 27-okt-2006, at 12:03, George Borisov wrote: Peter Teunissen wrote: If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the SARE rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spamassassin. I use these rulesets and get very high scores on the picture spam I get. Simply add these rules

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie > > operation and starts sending spam

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie operation and starts sending spam from these zombie machines, it increases the net amount of

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 07:51, Chris Walters wrote: > Unfortunately, I think the only answer to spam is a class action lawsuit > - or an International one against the people who are getting rich off > these messages. I'll bet that most legitimate Internet Service/Access > Providers would join a

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread John Hasler
Chris Walters writes: > As for stopping spam, as we have recently seen, word lists are not going > to be the answer, since spammers are now using images These rules are presently stopping most image spam here: rawbody INLINE_IMAGE/src\s*=\s*["']cid:/i describe INLINE_IMAGE Inline Images sc

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-26 12:56:07 +0100, David Hart wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that mutt is not ideal for reading pop > accounts but I've found it very useful for things like testing when > setting up pop/imap servers. AFAIK, POP is not a protocol to read mail (in the sense, as a real mailbox, with

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-10-26 19:34:49 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: >> DENY=^Subject:.*v..agra > > You may reject legitimate mail, in particular because . can replace > anything including a space (in French, "agra" is contained in > "agrand

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-25 20:05:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The goal is to mix mail. And yes, Mutt can't do that when dealing > > with multiple accounts (they all appear in a separate mailbox). > > Not true, mutt excels at mixing mail to the point where it is > utterly incapab

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-26 19:34:49 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > DENY=^Subject:.*v..agra You may reject legitimate mail, in particular because . can replace anything including a space (in French, "agra" is contained in "agrandir", which is a very common word -- I don't know about English words that contain "

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread George Borisov
Peter Teunissen wrote: > > If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the SARE > rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spamassassin. I use these > rulesets and get very high scores on the picture spam I get. Simply add > these rules to your setup using sa-update & the openprote

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
Tim Post wrote: > > Since on the topic, if someone is winning the battle to keep them out of > their inbox, sharing of spam-a rules would be much appreciated :) I'm > getting 15 - 20 of them a day. For mailfilter, in the .mailfilterrc file, I find this rule catches quite a few: DEN

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Bruno Buys wrote: To be honest, Mike and all others, the hostility in this list was worse in the past. I felt some improvement in this respect. I don't follow other linux lists to be able to compare, but in forums certainly there are competition and hostility, so I don't think debian is a specia

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 26-okt-2006, at 18:31, Tim Post wrote: Yes, I get several a day myself. The actual "text" of the message is often actually an image, while the body of the message is randomly selected sentences or words from a collection which would make a Bayesian filter delete most of my e-mail. Same t

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Bruno Buys
Mike McCarty wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU >>> project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to >>> change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil >>> MicroSoft Emp

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Kent West
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: later taters Mmmm, taters -- Kent begin:vcard fn:Kent West n:West;Kent org:Abilene Christian University;Technology Support adr:;;ACU Box 29005;Abilene;TX;79699;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:UNIX System Administrator tel;work:325-674-2557 tel;

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, an

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
T.J. Duchene wrote: <> > > I'm going to delibrately make a few comments now, and if everyone gets > upset, so be it. <> Any group of people will end up arguing about stuff. Its the nature of the beast. Frankly, though most of the arguing is off-topic, the fact that people here argue is a good th

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, and a triumph of the

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
T.J. Duchene wrote: I'd like to start by applauding your effort to spread some oil on these waters. What follows is the $0.02 USD worth of commentary of one who has essentially abandoned contributing in whatever small way he did to this mail list. Steve, I'm sorry if you took my comments the

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 - Original Message From: Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EM

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:47 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Tim Post wrote: > > A: Because it reverses the normal order of conversation. > Q: Why is top-posting considered undesirable by many? > Apologies. My desktop machines are being consumed with things apparently more important than me using th

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:45:34AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > Nothing on these lists is a personal attack, and it gets so tiresome to > see all this hostility all the time. Honestly, that's one of the > greatest problems with Debian or any other list. You make a comment, > and the next thing

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:45 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > Nothing on these lists is a personal attack, and it gets so tiresome to > see all this hostility all the time. Honestly, that's one of the > greatest problems with Debian or any other list. You make a comment, > and the next thing you g

Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:43 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > T.J. Duchene wrote: > > Granted, several of the new MUAs aka "mail clients" or more precisely > > "mail user agents" have some very primitive filtering capabilities, but > > ladies and gentlemen, the most practical mail filtering or sorting is

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/26/2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > Tim Post wrote: >> Speaking of which, contacting the FTC regarding penalizing spamvertised >> stocks is futile .. does anyone know of any law requiring the FTC to >> act? Seems to me the stock should get yanked and the company >> investigated and find for such

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread George Borisov
Tim Post wrote: > > Since on the topic, if someone is winning the battle to keep them out of > their inbox, sharing of spam-a rules would be much appreciated :) I'm > getting 15 - 20 of them a day. For the ones with the ads as an image (which, I assume, is what you mean) you can use the FuzzyOCR

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:43:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > Don't expect Outlook, Thunderbird, Mutt, Pine, or even Evolution to do > > anything more than simple blob sorts or spam checking. > > You mean like Thunderbird having a built-in Bayesian scanner which cat

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The goal is to mix mail. And yes, Mutt can't do that when dealing > > with multiple accounts (they all appear in a separate mailbox). > > Not true, mutt excels at mixing mail to the point where it is utte

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:41:48AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > Been there, done that, look at the third link above to see why it does. > > ;-) > > Doesn't keep mail separate. Please, read the archives before going > further. I'm sick and tired of mutt zealots telling me

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
T.J. Duchene wrote: > Granted, several of the new MUAs aka "mail clients" or more precisely > "mail user agents" have some very primitive filtering capabilities, but > ladies and gentlemen, the most practical mail filtering or sorting is > almost always done server side before your MUA even gets th

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Tim Post wrote: A: Because it reverses the normal order of conversation. Q: Why is top-posting considered undesirable by many? What I can't seem to stop is the huge influx of these "penny stock" spams. They're getting smarter than bayes filtering and keyword 'snatches' have become almost imposs

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread Tim Post
What I can't seem to stop is the huge influx of these "penny stock" spams. They're getting smarter than bayes filtering and keyword 'snatches' have become almost impossible. Since on the topic, if someone is winning the battle to keep them out of their inbox, sharing of spam-a rules would be much

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread T.J. Duchene
Steve Lamb wrote: . > > Not true, mutt excels at mixing mail to the point where it is utterly > incapable of doing so without forcing the user to go to extraordinary lengths > to keep their mail untangled. Hence my pointing out that modern mail clients > can keep mail separate and cited mutt

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The goal is to mix mail. And yes, Mutt can't do that when dealing > with multiple accounts (they all appear in a separate mailbox). Not true, mutt excels at mixing mail to the point where it is utterly incapable of doing so without forcing the user to go to extraordina

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 20:29:10 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Er... why? That's why modern mail clients (read, not mutt) > handle multiple accounts from multiple servers. Back when I was > running OS/2 and PMMail/2 (late 90s) I had 4 accounts I checked > regularly with POP and I never mixed them and loathe

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:21:59PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > fetchmail -> exim -> procmail -> IMAP storage -> dovecot -> MUA (tbird > > or mutt depending...) > > > procmail clearly handles IMAP just fine, all you have to do is put a / > > at the end of the locatio

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > Been there, done that, look at the third link above to see why it does. > ;-) Doesn't keep mail separate. Please, read the archives before going further. I'm sick and tired of mutt zealots telling me it does what it doesn't do and thinking a few links equates to a reasone

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread David Hart
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:58:11PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#pop > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#imap > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#account-hook > > Been there, discussed that, look at "mixing

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#pop > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#imap > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#account-hook Been there, discussed that, look at "mixing of mail" to see why it doesn't. kkthxbuhbyenow! -- Steve C.

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread David Hart
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:29:10PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Yes, in a perfect world. But one may have several mail accounts. > > So, one may want to retrieve mail from one account by POP or IMAP > > and store it to an IMAP mailbox (from which all the mail from > > ever

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Yes, in a perfect world. But one may have several mail accounts. > So, one may want to retrieve mail from one account by POP or IMAP > and store it to an IMAP mailbox (from which all the mail from > every account is read with a MUA). Er... why? That's why modern mail

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > fetchmail -> exim -> procmail -> IMAP storage -> dovecot -> MUA (tbird > or mutt depending...) > procmail clearly handles IMAP just fine, all you have to do is put a / > at the end of the location to store the mail and it handles it as IMAP. You mean Maildir? I

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 14:02:11 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a > >MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer > >developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent > >support IMA

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 10:30:28 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a > > MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer > > developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent > > support IMA

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: However procmail is no longer developed and is too old to support IMAP. I'm confused by this as I'm reading the list right now using t-bird from my store connected to IMAP folders on my server at home and its setup like this: fetchma

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > However procmail is no longer > developed and is too old to support IMAP. I'm confused by this as I'm reading the list right now using t-bird from my store connected to IMAP folders on my server at home and its setup like this: fetchmail -> exim -> procmail -> IMAP storag

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent support IMAP via a Perl module? The upstream version of procmail isn't m

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a > MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer > developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent > support IMAP via a Perl module? Er... how and why? I'm really c

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 01:32:11 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:18:53 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I was looking at documentation for mailagent (I use Procmail atm) > > but I could not find any mention of IMAP. Does mailagent do IMAP? > > mailagent, like

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:18:53 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 15:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:58:28 +0200, Vincent Lefevre >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> > On 2006-10-17 03:19:23 +, s. keeling wrote: >> >> You're the first pe

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:22:42 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 00:18, Pollywog wrote: >> >> I was looking at documentation for mailagent (I use Procmail atm) >> but I could not find any mention of IMAP. Does mailagent do IMAP? > What I meant was: can mailag

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-21 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 00:18, Pollywog wrote: > > I was looking at documentation for mailagent (I use Procmail atm) but I > could not find any mention of IMAP. Does mailagent do IMAP? What I meant was: can mailagent deliver mail to IMAP mailboxes? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-21 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 21 October 2006 15:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:58:28 +0200, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On 2006-10-17 03:19:23 +, s. keeling wrote: > >> You're the first person I've seen to describe procmail as > >> "underpowered." I would not list that

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:58:28 +0200, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2006-10-17 03:19:23 +, s. keeling wrote: >> You're the first person I've seen to describe procmail as >> "underpowered." I would not list that as one of its attributes. >> Perhaps it's difficult to figure out

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-17 03:19:23 +, s. keeling wrote: > You're the first person I've seen to describe procmail as > "underpowered." I would not list that as one of its attributes. > Perhaps it's difficult to figure out how to get it to do $THAT, but > (in my experience) it can do $THAT. I couldn't find

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