On Sunday 20 April 2008 18:39:29 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> A lot of the spam I'm seeing sneak past spamassassin has a blogger url in
> it (this seems to be a new favorite for spammers).

yep

> Can someone do a spam-versus-ham comparison for included links to
> blogger.com

well.... some "independent" research, that was "coincidentaly" sponsored by=
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Microsoft sayd it's 95%.
obviously thats crap. it toatally depends on your company setup.

> If it proves high enough, would a rule be possible?

http://sarah.ibcsolutions.de/~aep/sa/30_blogspot.cf

combine that with other rules like SARE_OEM or=20
http://sarah.ibcsolutions.de/~aep/sa/50_software.cf

also note that at least for me 100% of blogspot spam comes from dialups. So=
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again a combined rule is usefull. (besides xbl is extremly effective)

Bayes is very effective too, since spammers are becomming a lot less creati=
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with rephrasing.

> Also, would it be possible to make spamassassin -r smart about reporting
> such links straight to the feedback form here:
>
> http://help.blogger.com/?page=3Dtrou...&ItemType=3Ds=
pam&cont
>act_type=3DSpam&Submit=3DContinue

I doubt that helps. The spammers are just recreating them.


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best regards/Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen
Arvid Ephraim Picciani