Just like mum used to make. Watch the advert.

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As Donncha commented the other day about stock spam being almost illegible recently this advent weekend brings snow capped stock symbols. Font fans will recognise Almonte Snow pretty quickly.

So I have to ask, Is this a festive celebration or are they just avoiding the OCR techniques again?

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I’ve been on the business end of a long running joe-job for three (almost four) days now and it’s become apparent that I’ve to make some changes in order to deal with the stuff my system’s not currently delaing with.

Thanks to many mailservers including enough of the body about the spam much of the pain [...]

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This is pretty neat, an rbl server for windows. I have no idea why people wouldn’t use a *nix but this appears to be an alternative. If you didn’t know:
Rbldnsd is a small and fast DNS daemon which is especially engineered for serving DNSBL zones. It can serve both IP-based and name-based blocklists. [...]

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Wow busy Sunday on my little mailserver.

17034 Scanned
476 ( 2.79%) Clean passed
86 ( 0.50%) Malware blocked
16470 (96.69%) Spam passed
2 ( 0.01%)Bad headers passed
2 [...]

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I noticed there was an update avalable for Logwatch (7.3.1) recently and it now puts percentages in the report for amavisd-new hits. I’d not thought of pulling the statistics for my ickle mailserver untill I noticed quite how depressingly high my spam quotient is.

These are my numbers:

6402 [...]

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ICANN realise they don’t have the authority at last.
9 October 2006 — ICANN has been advised that a Proposed Order referencing ICANN has been submitted to the court in the matter entitled e360Insight, LLC et al. v. The Spamhaus Project, Case No. 06 CV 3958. This lawsuit is currently pending in the United States [...]

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Section 2 on learning based filters (Last session)

Batch and Online Spam Filter Comparison; Gordon Cormack and Andrej Bratko.  Gordon offers a plug for Trec ;)   Read the paper, I can’t summarise this one! Captivating presentation by Gordon on the good bad and ugly comparison of DMC PPM Bogofilter LR and SVN classifiers. Possibly the best [...]

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Teaching Spam and Spyware at the University of C@1g4ry; John Aycock – I had coffe with John yesterday, and he has a strong personal belief that uni’s can help scociety by educating CS students in fighting spam and spyware . He teaches a full a 13 week course at [...]

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Modeling Identity in Archival Collections of Email: A Preliminary Study; Tamer Elsayed, Douglas Oard. More nodal analysys of the Emron corpus using address-name/nickname-address associations in headers and quoted headers. 96.7% entity accuracy is pretty impressive especialy with the weakest evidance. I have to wonder what else this could be used for if they [...]

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