Re: Whitelisting?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Whitelisting?
Date: 2010-02-02 20:56:07
Message-ID: 20100202205607.GG4020@alvh.no-ip.org
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Greg Stark escribió:
> Is there any evidence that spammers use longer headers than non-spammers?
>
> Incidentally my earlier post to pgsql-advocacy was initially refused due to
> being over the message limit. I had to reduce the image quality to get out
> through.
>
> These days I think spammers try to make short messages and headers in an
> effort to avoid any signals which catch their messages.

Yeah, they go great lengths to ensure their messages pass through
SpamAssassin clean. These checks seem to me to be pretty useless --
they only ever catch legitimate email. Invalid email is caught much
earlier (before it gets to the moderator), or not at all.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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