Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]my own script, unspaminator.sh, looks for 3 or more exclamations, too many of the words "free", "adv", "save", "loan", and addresses that consist of many numbers, or .jp, .ru, and certain other countries. the output goes to a mailbox which catches about 80% of the bads and 5% of the goods. naturally, every email with the words Leica or Rollei are automatically let in! but i never had the guts to have it automatically backspam! - -rei > From: Herbert & Lee Kanner <kanner@acm.org> > > Sooner or later, any simple program gets fooled. I set up a group of > filters to throw spam into a specific mailbox, and a couple of the > filters looked for things in the subject line or text like "$$$$$" or > "!!!!!". Well, in time, it happened. A correspondent, exasperated > by a problem or situation, followed an exclamatory statement by ten > consecutive exclamation points. > > Herb >