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RE: {Spam?} Re: [SURBL-Discuss] freehosting.net FP on WS
by Chris Santerre 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

>-----Original Message----- >From: Steven Champeon [mailto:schampeo@hesketh.com] >Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:29 PM >To: SURBL Discussion list >Subject: {Spam?} Re: [SURBL-Discuss] freehosting.net FP on WS > > >on Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:57:05PM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: >> Can you guess where this was? :) > >Yeah, in spam. Sent to a spamtrap. > >Return-Path: <m311002(a)hotmail.com> >Received: from larcs (c67164.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.67.164]) > by serrano.hesketh.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id >g9VC3fr07663 > for <spamtrap>; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:52:09 -0500 >Message-Id: <200210311052.g9VC3fr07663(a)serrano.hesketh.net> >X-Originating-IP: [212.187.67.164] >X-Spam-Filter: check_local(a)serrano.hesketh.net by digitalanswers.org >X-Probably-Spam: "message sent from known spam source (caught >by FIVETEN)" >From: <m311002(a)hotmail.com> >To: <spamtrap> >Subject: As Seen and PROVEN on US TV >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:58:39Status: RO >Content-Length: 878 >Lines: 28 > >ONE TIME MAILING, NO NEED TO REMOVE OR REPLY BY E-MAIL *snip* LOL, you always find one Steve :) You're like a pitbull....only easier to cuddle with. That one is from 2002! --Chris (Hold me!)

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] freehosting.net FP on WS
by Chris Santerre 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Can you guess where this was? :) Removed! --Chris >-----Original Message----- >From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [mailto:raymond@prolocation.net] >Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:13 PM >To: SURBL Discussion list >Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] freehosting.net FP on WS > > >Hi! > >> freehosting.net is listed in WS. >> freehosting.net has been around since 1998. >> Subdomains are available to customers. Most of these customers and >> subdomains are not spammers. >> >> Checking NANAS reports vs. other postings on Google Groups >indicate that >> having freehosting.net listed will generate a lot of false >positives and >> catch almost no spam. > >Whitelisted on WS now. > >Thanks, >Raymond. >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss(a)lists.surbl.org >http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] sounddogs.com FP on WS.
by Chris Santerre 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

This was back in June. Came from Steve. Removed. I've changed the review process of Steve's domains since then. So far all have been from back in June. If I get a second I'll go thru them again, but there was a TON! Steve's a busy little bug ;) --Chris >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc@surbl.org] >Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 7:52 AM >To: SURBL Discussion list >Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] sounddogs.com FP on WS. > > >On Sunday, August 15, 2004, 4:34:18 AM, Patrik Nilsson wrote: >> sounddogs.com is listed on WS. > >> It's an online sound effects library that's been around since 1998. > >> 1100 posts mentioning sounddogs.com found in Google News. >> None of them a NANAS report related to abuse from sounddogs.com. > >Thanks, I've whitelisted it in SURBLs. We should ask >the WS contributors to check how it got in. > >Jeff C. > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss(a)lists.surbl.org >http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] fp whitelisted: callatg.com, others
by Chris Santerre 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Callatg.com was in Steve's June submissions. Removed. There is something like 7289 domains in that file from June :) So far about 4 FPs. Not that bad. Again, new submissions go thru more scrutiny then before. So no worries on recent ones. --Chris >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc@surbl.org] >Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:16 AM >To: SURBL Discuss >Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] fp whitelisted: callatg.com, others > > >I've whitelisted: > >atgi.net >callatg.com >advancedtelcom.com > >All of which belong to the same legitimate company. >They make telephone switch hardware, etc. and I knew >someone who worked there. > >callatg.com was on ws. Bill can you see how it got on? > >Jeff C. > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss(a)lists.surbl.org >http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] cross-pollination with MT-Blacklist?
by Chris Santerre 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

>-----Original Message----- >From: jm(a)jmason.org [mailto:jm@jmason.org] >Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:15 AM >To: discuss(a)lists.surbl.org >Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] cross-pollination with MT-Blacklist? > > >Hi SURBLers -- > >has anyone talked to Jay Allen and the MT-Blacklist people? > >MT-Blacklist -- http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/ -- is a >blacklist of >"bad" URLs (sound familiar? ;). They have quite a small list from the >looks of things, but cross-pollination could work both ways; if *they* >looked up SURBL, or even just looked up a "blog-spam" SURBL sublist, >that'd be a lot more sensible. > >BTW I bet the blog spammers and email spammers are the same >people. (If >blog spammers are the people who *used* to do referrer >spamming, then I'm >*sure* of it -- see http://taint.org/2003/08/14/040652a.html ). > >Also -- some info on that google technique posted here and in >SpamAssassin-users recently -- read this: >http://kalsey.com/2004/07/new_comment_spam_technique/ > > "It appears the spammers have a new tactic in increasing their > PageRank. They find a site that doesn't delete comment >spam and fill > it with links. Then they boost the PR of that site by >spamming it in > blog comments. Once the spam-friendly's site has in >increased Google > ranking, all those spammed links in their comments will >get a boost in > rank as well." > >I'll bet that's it -- working like so: > > 1. spammer S sets up payload site > 2. S spams comment spam everywhere to up its PageRank > 3. S email-spams with the google search URL > 4. top hit for that phrase is the payload site. SARE is currently discussing an eval to catch number 3. Basically a file containing spam phrases. Eval looks for matches in any given google search link to those spam terms. All theory right now. But should stop this junk. --Chris

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] FP Pattern for sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
by Chris Santerre 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

For what it is worth, if I turned off blocking at MTA level I would see a 33-40% increase in traffic. I don't want that. Every reject has a nice response saying where to email if you get blocked. I've got Delay_checks enabled. So I can override a listing. I've had to do it 3 times I think. All 3 times the customer was grateful I had informed then they were on a black list. And I helped them to get off of it. So it was not a negative for our company, bit a positive. Just the rants of a crazy man, --Chris >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob McEwen [mailto:rob@pvsys.com] >Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 4:52 PM >To: 'SURBL Discussion list' >Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] FP Pattern for sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org >Importance: High > > >RE: FP Pattern for sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org > >For a while now, my philosophy has been to use >sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org to block >at the connection level and not even allow these messages onto >my server. >Much of the remaining spam filtering is then done by SURBL-checking. >However, more recently, I been testing samples of sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org >blocked messages and I've noticed two things. > >(1) more false positives than I would want to see (though >still a very tiny, >tiny percentage overall) get blocked by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org > >...and... > >(2) those that ARE legitimate tend to be cases where a mistake >was made and, >by the next day (or later that same day), the offending IP is >removed from >sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org > >However, I must admit, I'm drawing sweeping conclusions from >very little >sampling of data. Therefore, don't take my word for it... >Rather, is this >consistent with anyone else's experience with sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org? The >reason I mention this is that, if my initial conclusions are >true, there >would then be a strong argument for "holding" >sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org blocked >mail and giving it a "second try" some hours later. Also, if >this is true, >does anyone have a "feel" for exactly how long "bad" data stays on >sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org before it gets removed? (Recognizing, of >course, that >SpamHaus is probably the most reliable and respected free RBL >in existence >and they rarely make mistakes in the first place). > >Any thoughts or suggestions? Has anyone examined their >sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org >blocked messages lately? > >Rob McEwen > > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss(a)lists.surbl.org >http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] Need help with setup...
by Kristian Davies 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Yeah cheers, i'd actually read that already... Anyway.. i just did a find on Conf.pm which came up with 3 diretories under /usr/lib/perl5 and i made sure that the 3 .pm files that come with SpamURI were the same and the ones in the perl directories, now --lint works fine. However the 3 directories it found all have lots of pm's in them not just these 3 that come with spamURI. I also re-installed. but it seems that spam is still not getting tagged with URI.... :-( >>Here is what Eric Kolve wrote recently about a similar >>error: > It looks like you have two Conf.pm files floating around. > > Do a locate for 'Conf.pm', you probably have one from a previous > perl install or SpamCopURI is going into the wrong place. > > You are looking for a directory that only has Conf.pm, PerMsgStatus.pm > and SpamCopURI.pm. Remove all those files and try re-installing. > > --eric >>Hope this helps, >>Jeff C. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] Need help with setup...
by Kristian Davies 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

I use amavisd, and yes i have network test enabled. Basically i've been using current setup with amavis/sa/clamav, sorbs/spamhaus/spamcop etc without a hitch for a year or so. The only thing that doesnt work is spamuri which i added a couple of days ago. If i do spamassassin --lint, i get: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri snurl.com *.snurl.com Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri snipurl.com *.snipurl.com Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri tinyclick.com *.tinyclick.com Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri babyurl.com *.babyurl.com Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri lin.kz *.lin.kz Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri *.v3.net Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri shorl.com *.shorl.com Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri tinyurl.com *.tinyurl.com Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list _spamcop_uri xurl.us Failed to compile URI SpamAssassin tests, skipping: (syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf, rule WS_URI_RBL, line 1, near "eval:" syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf, rule SPAMCOP_URI_RBL, lin e 1, near "eval:" syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf, rule SPAMCOP_URI_RBL, lin e 6, near "} }" ) Any ideas...? Cheers -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc@surbl.org] Sent: 16 August 2004 13:01 To: Kristian Davies Cc: 'discuss(a)lists.surbl.org' Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Need help with setup... On Monday, August 16, 2004, 3:52:37 AM, Kristian Davies wrote: > I have everything setup/installed, copied the pm into the relevant places > along with .cf, but still i'm not getting any hits. Do you have network tests enabled? http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest > My SpamAssassin now has SURBL support but I'm not seeing hits. > If you recently added SURBL support to SpamAssassin but are not > seeing any SURBL (or other RBL hits), check that you have > enabled network tests. For example, if you're using spamd, make > sure it's started without the -L or --local flags, which force > local tests only. If you are running Amavis, make sure > amavisd.conf has $sa_local_tests_only = 0. (Uncomment this line > if it was commented out before, then set the value to zero to > enable network tests.) Jeff C. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [SURBL-Discuss] FP Pattern for sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
by Rich Graves 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Rob McEwen <rob(a)pvsys.com> wrote: > Sorry, I didn't mean to start such a ruckus. I have a proposal. I'll > re-configure my filter so that it only blocks those IPs at the MTA level > which are listed on both (1) DSBL (...AND...) (2) listed on at least one of > the two SpamHaus lists. This thread is increasingly off-topic, but I am interested in the outcome of your analysis. On my end, it's worth noting that SpamAssassin with SURBLs rejects 8.6% of messages that passed through all of our blacklist and antivirus checks. I've been doing multi-blacklisting for a couple years. Currently mail must be on at least two of three of bl.spamcop.net, sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, and list.dsbl.org to be rejected. I have seen false positives on Chinese universities, but not much else. Our 55x rejects always give specific reasons and an invitation to contact postmaster@brandeis. Here's my numbers from our primary MX over the last 10 days. These rules are applied in the order below, i.e., if you're on both spamcop and spamhaus we don't check any other rules, and we don't even bother scanning .pif files with ClamAV anymore. 25,117 /etc/mail/access 42,407 bl.spamcop.net and sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org 3,366 sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and list.dsbl.org 1,778 bl.spamcop.net and list.dsbl.org 16,067 messages with .pif, .cmd, .vbs, .cpl, or .scr attachments rejected 7,750 viruses detected by ClamAV 24,422 refused because SpamAssassin scored > 14.0 (to score so high, they usually need to be on more than one SURBL) 258,129 messages accepted for delivery Of the 258K messages delivered, 25,448 were tagged suspect with SpamAssassin score > 5.0 and 30,401 were on exactly one blacklist. -- Rich Graves <rcgraves(a)brandeis.edu> UNet Systems Administrator

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Need help with setup...
by Kristian Davies 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hi All, I have everything setup/installed, copied the pm into the relevant places along with .cf, but still i'm not getting any hits. What are the debug steps... i cant think why its not working. SA 2.64 URI latest Tia, Kristian --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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