Re: {off topic) Spam filter (was Re: Work From Home and Earn $$$$ - FREE Info!)

[Erik Mouw <J dot A dot K dot Mouw at ITS dot TUDelft dot NL>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:32:29AM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:58:20PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> > Bo Thorsen <bo@sonofthor.dk> writes:
> > > I just saw this mail from saturday. The moron has for some reason decided to 
> ...
> > end.  So you saw it as Work@Home.sonofthor.dk; I saw it as
> > Work@Home.troilus.org.  (A similar thing happens when spammers put a
> ...
> 
> I didn't see it at all }:-).
> procmail is your friend:
> 
> # Statistically significant SPAM patterns
> :0 B
> * (remove\.html|for full details|huge savings|act now| mlm[^a-z]|works!|here.s how:|here.s how [^I]|remove[0-9-]*@|order now|now revealed|chain letter|100% guaranteed|money back|like to order|easy to order| to order.*free|age.* to order|year.* to order|for detailed information|free copy|special offer|cost\?|To be removed|absolutely free|no risk involved|absolutely no risk|with no risk|entrepreneur|added bonus|extra income|don.t delay|[^e]send check|money-order|dear sir|1-[89]00|Visa|under 18[,. ])
> archive/spam2
> 
> 
> Be warned, its a fasist filter - sometimes it filters away normal mail
> (but only very sometimes is my experience).

You might be interested in the spamfilter package we use on all
nl.linux.org mailing lists. It's basically a large regexps database
that catches spam plus some scripts to convert it to several mail
systems (procmail, majordomo, etc). See http://spamfilter.nl.linux.org/ .



Erik

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