[ADMINISTRIVIA] New spam blocking software in effect

[Carlo Wood]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:25:32PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've instituted some new spam blocking on this list. 

I use the following personally composed (procmail) filter to get rid of spam;
it works very well.  You might want to use some of this :).

:0:
* ^X-Mailer:.*(Au2Email|SuperMail)
archive/spam-header

:0:
* ^Message-Id:.*megaprovider.com
archive/spam-header

:0:
* ^Received: from unknown \(HELO yahoo.com\)
archive/spam-header

:0:D
* ^Subject:.*(remove[^sd_]|ADV|[¤-þ][¤-þ][¤-þ]|=?[Ii][Ss][Oo][^?]*?.*=[a-fA-F89][a-fA-F0-9]=[a-fA-F89][a-fA-F0-9]=[a-fA-F89][a-fA-F0-9]|=\?([^Ii]|[Ii][^Ss]|[Ii][Ss][^Oo])|        [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*$)
archive/spam-header

:0 B
* (subject=remove|remove\.asp|remove\.cgi|remove[0-9-]*@|"http|call [0-9][0-9][0-9]|This is not unsolicited email|You get this message because your e-mail address|You have received this e-mail because|This is NOT SPAM|send a blank e-mail to|<(a|img)[^>]*http://[1-9]|http://[^"]*girl)
archive/spam-body

:0 BD
* (http://[a-z0-9.-]*/unsubscribe\.asp|http://www\.make-cents\.com|Make-Cents|autoemailremoval\.com|LOLITAS)
archive/spam-body

:0 B
* (to be remove|remove.*subject|chain letter|absolutely free|entrepreneur|money)
archive/spam-pattern

:0 BD
* (To Be Removed|Dear (Sir|Friend|Windows|Online|eBusiness|WebMaster)|1-[89]00|V[Ii][Ss][Aa]([^[A-Za-z]|Pro|$))
archive/spam-pattern


-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>