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Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling?
From: "Al Iverson" <aliversonchicagolists () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 09:01:33 -0500
On 5/12/07, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net> wrote:
* ops.lists () gmail com (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [Sat 12 May 2007, 05:25 CEST]: > On 5/11/07, K K <kkadow () gmail com> wrote: >> Probably 98% of the mailbox is from are spammers who've harvested or >> randomly targeted abuse@ addresses for male enhancement, maybe 1.99% > So? A little filtering should handle a lot of that, procmail even. > At least to file the obvious crap into a different folder that can be > looked at and blown away Difficult, as spam complaints generally include the original spam and thus trigger SpamAssassin (almost) just as hard.
SpamAssassin isn't the only way to filter spam. It's not bad, but pure content filtering is probably not the way to go for an abuse desk.
Otherwise, looking forward to your 98% effective procmail recipe
Mine didn't even need procmail, just piped inbound mail through a shell script I wrote, with about an 80% success rate, and no false positives. Regards, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson on Spam and Deliverabilty, see http://www.spamresource.com News, stats, info, and commentary on blacklists: http://www.dnsbl.com My personal website: http://www.aliverson.com -- Chicago, IL, USA
Current thread:
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling?, (continued)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? william(at)elan.net (May 11)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? K K (May 12)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? Douglas Otis (May 13)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? John Levine (May 13)
- RE: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? Stasiniewicz, Adam (May 12)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? Al Iverson (May 12)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? Gerry Boudreaux (May 12)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? Niels Bakker (May 12)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? John Levine (May 12)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? Al Iverson (May 13)
- Re: Best practices for abuse@ mailbox and network abuse complaint handling? Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 13)