Am 11.05.2015 um 13:43 schrieb Eli Wapniarski:
What makes the Elipse and for that matter any use of a period inside
the
subject line so bad is that most filters rely on regular expressions to
filter. The period is a special character in regex processors which
means all. If one were to create a simple filter based on the period,
they would be blocking everything. So this trick is utilized to get past
those filters.
jesus christ then give that filter some score points instead
unconditional block as well as train your bayes and use DNSWL with
negative scores
last but not least add that line to your SA local.cf
whitelist_auth *(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
A manual creation of the filter which would include \. would be
required.
so what - you need to take care about escaping in general
Until I created the filter to block out elipses. I would get all
sorts
of bad mail trying to sell me all sorts of stuff that you would not want
sold to you, or to visit all sorts of sites you would not want your kids
to visit. So, to answer your question, yes I have blocked elipses for a
very long time. I will continue to block elipses, and I am quite
confident, because of this issue other aggressive filters will also
block them.
you do that because you are simply too lazy to train your filters
because otherwise we would not be able block that sort of mails without
creating hammer rules with false positives
You can do what you wish. I am not going to get into a trolling match
well, you started the trolling with your "i am unable to configure a
sane spamfilter and so ask the world to write around it for legit mails"
with anyone. I am relating my experience and made a request thats
all.
If you choose to continue using elipses thats fine thats up to you. :)
honestly if you would have expierience with spamfiltering you would
write sane score rules instead ask the rest of the world to take care
how to write their mails for not hit your broken configuration
Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 14:14 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>> Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 11:23 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>> >> As a result, I had to filter them out. I am sure that other
>> aggressive
>> >> anti spam filters will filter out those subjects as well.
>> >
>> > Why? Is this a defining characteristic of spam? Are you also going to
>> > ask the rest of the Internet not to use ellipses in Subject lines?
>>
>> Believe it or not.... it is.
>
> A quick search on this list shows over a hundred such messages over the
> last few years. Similar searches on other lists show similar results.
> Are you saying that all these messages have been blocked by your spam
> filter? If so, you seriously need to think about changing it