{"id":1304,"date":"2002-05-15T14:12:55","date_gmt":"2002-05-15T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2002-05-15T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2002-05-15T14:12:55","slug":"spam_sux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Spam Sux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.spamassassin.org\/\">SpamAssassin<\/A> is this wonderful unix app that checks each email coming into my mailbox to see if it looks like spam.&nbsp; Basicly it&#8217;s got a list of common attributes that make up spam mail and each one has a certain point value.&nbsp; If a message has a high enough score it marks it as spam and moves on.&nbsp; I then have procmail filter those messages to their own folder.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>The best thing about it though is some of the things that count as hits.&nbsp; And every once in a while it seems like you get a message that just seems to hit just about everything that can be hit.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s the results for a particularly spammy message:<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><\/p>\n<p \/><P>SPAM: Content analysis details: (36.84 hits, 5 required)<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.2 points) From: does not include a real name<BR>SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Invalid Date: header (no timezone)<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.31 points) Character set doesn&#8217;t exist<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.77 points) BODY: No such thing as a free lunch<BR>SPAM: Hit! (3.32 points) BODY: Doesn&#8217;t ask any questions<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.57 points) BODY: Talks about direct email<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.6 points) BODY: Offers a full refund<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1 point) BODY: Asks for a billing address<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1 point) BODY: Asks you for your signature on a form<BR>SPAM: Hit! (0.7 points) BODY: Contains word &#8216;profits&#8217; in all-caps<BR>SPAM: Hit! (0.5 points) BODY: Contains &#8216;for only&#8217; some amount of cash<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.72 points) BODY: Talks about email marketing<BR>SPAM: Hit! (3.46 points) BODY: Contains word &#8216;AMAZING&#8217;<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.2 points) BODY: HTML mail with non-white background<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.55 points) BODY: Contains an ASCII-formatted form<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.56 points) Contains phrases frequently found in spam<BR>SPAM: [score: 12, hits: all you, are you, broadcast]<BR>SPAM: [email, check credit, city state, com subject,]<BR>SPAM: [com with, credit card, credit cards, email]<BR>SPAM: [address, email advertising, email from, email]<BR>SPAM: [package, find out, for free, for only, for your,]<BR>SPAM: [free bonus, free order, from our, increase]<BR>SPAM: [sales, number exp, order form, order phone, our]<BR>SPAM: [broadcast, phone number, product service,]<BR>SPAM: [receive least, response rate, send out, state]<BR>SPAM: [province, thank you, the internet, this email,]<BR>SPAM: [this program, united states, web site, what you,]<BR>SPAM: [when you, with our, with your, within days, you]<BR>SPAM: [for, you not, you receive, you you, your]<BR>SPAM: [business, your email, your name, your]<BR>SPAM: [order]<BR>SPAM: Hit! (3.33 points) HTML-only mail, with no text version<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.75 points) From and To the same address<BR>SPAM: Hit! (1.8 points) No MX records for the From: domain<BR>SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Received via a relay in relays.osirusoft.com<BR>SPAM: [RBL check: found<BR>225.159.1.212.relays.osirusoft.com.]<BR>SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Received via a relay in relays.ordb.org<BR>SPAM: [RBL check: found 57.62.43.216.relays.ordb.org.]<BR>SPAM: Hit! (0.5 points) Received via a relay in ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org<BR>SPAM: [RBL check: found<BR>225.159.1.212.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org., type: 127.0.0.6]<BR>SPAM: <\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p \/><P dir=ltr>I highly recommend this app to anyone who&#8217;s a unix mail user.&nbsp; It even runs on my OS X box.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpamAssassin is this wonderful unix app that checks each email coming into my mailbox to see if it looks like spam.&nbsp; Basicly it&#8217;s got a list of common attributes that make up spam mail and each one has a certain point value.&nbsp; If a message has a high enough score it marks it as spam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}