Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me!

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Katrina

Hi again,

it's me Katrina from Ecstasea Yacht Charter. Just wanted to say thanks for pre-registering
with us and we wanted to let you know that we are now up and running! I can't
wait to see you on deck with me and my girlfriends! In case you don't remember
how to reach me, you can go to the website below to make discreet reservations...

We'll have a great time!

xoxo- Katrina

http://EcstaseaYachtCharter.com
 
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Daniel Carrera

Is it me, or is spam getting really hard to catch these days?

This spam email has almost nothing "spammy" about it. The only SA rule that this
hit was BAYES (which shows how powerful Bayes is). I just added rules for the
words "fantasy" and "register", but I have to give them low scores because they
might occur in legitimate mail.

Sigh.
Daniel.

Hi again,

it's me Katrina from Ecstasea Yacht Charter. Just wanted to say thanks for
pre-registering
with us and we wanted to let you know that we are now up and running! I can't
wait to see you on deck with me and my girlfriends! In case you don't remember
how to reach me, you can go to the website below to make discreet reservations...

We'll have a great time!

xoxo- Katrina

http://EcstaseaYachtCharter.com

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Brian Candler

Is it me, or is spam getting really hard to catch these days?

Yes; because more people are using spam filters, the spammers are adapting
their messages to bypass them. This is an arms race which I have not bought
into.

And now, just to trigger your spam filter, I am going to write:

int main(void)
{
register int fantasy;
}

Regards,

Brian.
 
H

Hal E. Fulton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Carrera" <[email protected]>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me!

Is it me, or is spam getting really hard to catch these days?
This spam email has almost nothing "spammy" about it. The only SA rule that
this hit was BAYES (which shows how powerful Bayes is). I just added rules
for the > words "fantasy" and "register", but I have to give them low scores
because they might occur in legitimate mail.

My fantasy is that 200 more people will register for the
Ruby Conference in Austin in November.

:)
Hal
 
B

Ben Giddings

"make.*reservation"
"thanks for.*regist"

On this list I can easily imagine seeing:

Ruby Conference 2003 is rapidly approaching. If you'd like to make a
reservation, talk to me, if you've already registered, thanks for your
registration.

The rules in Spam Assasin are pretty good though. They nail most of the
nigerian scams, etc. that I see. Mostly they seem to do it based on
malformed / forged headers too, something that is much more clearly a marking
of a spam system, but harder for people to spot.

It's just that it's always so hard to eliminate the false positives.

Oh well, the good news is that there finally is a real-world purpose to good
AI programs.

Ben
 
P

Phil Tomson

On this list I can easily imagine seeing:

Ruby Conference 2003 is rapidly approaching. If you'd like to make a
reservation, talk to me, if you've already registered, thanks for your
registration.

Yeah, but I notice that you couldn't imagine seeing the word 'girlfriend'
show up in a message to this list ;-)

Phil
 

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