on Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:33:39AM -0700, List Mail User wrote:

Steve,

I'm not a procmail user and nearly all your expressions look good except a few. If you have any users into genealogy the next~of~kin pair may give you problems; I get mail like this from family members who are "into" that sort of thing.

Thanks for the heads up; I've not seen any FPs on these yet, and I only use it to quarantine, not reject, so it's not that big a deal.

Also, my accountants will sometimes send me emails with urgent_response and/or urgent_reply in them.

OK.

All the rest seem to match what I have seen in 419s only - a really good list overall.

Thanks. IIRC, I based it on some work by Bruce Gingery, so I can't take all the credit. I've got some 2400 or so samples to run more cogent analyses on, some day. It works a hell of a lot better than the old filters I had built into sendmail, which tested Subject: and From: - but one day I'll go back to those, as I'm /really/ getting tired of suffering these fools. One of my users gets about fifty a day. :/ Fortunately, most of them are rejected.

(BTW. Bayes is good at catching these too. How often does an American even see or hear the word "barrister"? Ouside of the Commonwealth or old Commonwealth countries, I doubt the work gets any use except on PBS; And who *really* wants to hear from a lawyer anyway:-))

Heh. Depends on if you're the one accused of something :)