Re: Spam filters on the mailing lists

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Spam filters on the mailing lists
Date: 2008-02-22 07:27:24
Message-ID: 937d27e10802212327g346fd176j48f5a99f3cf91a9a@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
> Are there any X-Spam headers being added to the messages? Are those messsages
> scoring low? All @postgresql.org *should* be being scored, and looking through
> MAIA, I'm finding a load of stuff quarantined, and I'm bayes training those
> that I'm finding that is marked as 'non-spam' ...

Here's some examples, from the actual messages attached to the
moderation messages. This one from a Canada based pharmacy email:

X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.366 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=DCC_CHECK=1.37,
RCVD_IN_XBL=2.896, RDNS_NONE=0.1
X-Spam-Level: ****

This one from one which is just garbage ascii text:

X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.996 tagged_above=0 required=5
tests=RCVD_IN_XBL=2.896, RDNS_NONE=0.1
X-Spam-Level: **

This one from an all-cyrillic one:

X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.979 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=DCC_CHECK=1.37,
DIGEST_MULTIPLE=0.001, FH_HELO_EQ_D_D_D_D=0.498, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,
RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100=0.5, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100=1.5, RAZOR2_CHECK=0.5,
RCVD_IN_PBL=0.509, RDNS_NONE=0.1
X-Spam-Level: ****

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Dave Page
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