Spam

[cjsmith]

Best spam filter rule yet: ditch anything with a vertical bar anywhere in the subject!

I am also thinking of ditching anything with a zero in the subject. Maybe I'll narrow it down so that it only drops the message if the zero is surrounded by letters, that is, zero masquerading as 'o' so as to get the message past other spam filters. If I never see the word hydr0c0d0ne again it'll be fine with me. Same for the number 1 masquerading as 'l'.

(After some very aggressive spam filtering, I still receive a couple hundred spam a day. Until I can get rid of the problematic address entirely, tricks like this matter to me.)

Comments

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I just don't understand who would buy that stuff from a spammer anyway.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. Sadly, bulk e-mail is inexpensive enough that if even the teeniest tiniest fraction of people respond to a mailing, it's worth it. Making e-mail cost money would be a lot easier than finding that last lone person and inoculating him against stupidity...

[hanov3r.livejournal.com]

I've just started using SpamBouncer to filter my mail. In a week, out of ~3300 messages (yeah, I get a lot of mail), it's yanked out about 1300 as spam, and only 10 of those were false positives. I've had a couple of dozen sneak through, but I like those numbers.

It's a great joy to wake up in the morning, open my mail client, and *not* have 30 or 40 spams sitting in the Inbox.

[firecat]

I second Spambouncer (I use it on panix.com)

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

Plus you'd get rid of the 1337 speakers! cjsmith wins!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

A wonderful added bonus!

geeki|y speaking...

[gev.livejournal.com]

that vertical bar is known as a 'pipe'.
what is preventing you from ditching this 'problematic address'?

Re: geeki|y speaking...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

that vertical bar is known as a 'pipe'.

[sarcastic] Wow, I never would have known.

what is preventing you from ditching this 'problematic address'?

It's published in a *lot* of locations I haven't yet updated. In other words, laziness. :-)

Re: geeki|y speaking...

[gev.livejournal.com]

whoops! sarcasm usually tastes so much sweeter. :)
I am all to famliar with the laziness thing though

Re: geeki|y speaking...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, not a dig at you at all -- we LJ-friends don't always know each other well enough to guess what the other person has already heard of. I shoulda put a winkyface.

*sigh* I really oughtta get off my butt on that mail thing though. It's actually becoming a true annoyance. :-/