[ILUG] 419 spammer seeks technical assistance.

[Niall O Broin]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004, jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason) wrote:

>In fairness, most spam is small, but sent in bulk.  Also, getting access
>to the internet in Nigeria is almost definitely very expensive.  I'd say
>he's legit, especially providing that much info in his .sig ;)

Actually, I didn't really think he WASN'T legit.  But it was the irony of
email technical assistance being sought from Nigeria. Maybe I'm being a techno
racist ?

>PS: regarding SpamCatcher v SpamAssassin -- I don't know about
>SpamCatcher, but I do know that SpamAssassin is very effective,
>and (ta-da) free software ;)

Justin, I think you know you don't have to convince me. Unfortunately, Stalker
are in bed with the SpamCatcher people, and this is what the Man Who Will Be
Paying The Bill sees. Fortunately, the consensus on the CGPro mailing list so
far is 100% in favour of SA - what a surprise. SpamCatcher has a notably
higher false positive rate. As this is going to be implemented server side,
and mail judged spam will be deleted (customer request) the chosen solution
should have a low false positive rate.


One thing that struck me as interesting about SpamCatcher was that you can
regularly download new rules from their site, just like virus definitions. Of
course, this is probably where Justin waves the ox bladder over me and says
"We had that two versions ago - try to keep up."



Niall