[OT] New Play: SPAMELOT

[William Trenker]

I nominate whoever sent me over a thousand fake MS Update + attachment
spams in the last 24 hours.

I nominate for hero: Spambayes!

I have never received so many virus-related spam messages as this latest 'Swen' virus. Even the recent 'Klez' virus didn't come close on volume of spam messages received.

This latest one has been such a pain that yesterday I decided to try out Spambayes. I have Python 2.3 on Linux here, using Sylpheed for email. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to setup Spambayes and its pop3proxy.py application. I waited (not long) for a few of the virus messages to come my way, trained Spambayes on just those few messages, and haven't been bothered since.

I would also nominate Spambayes as Python App of the Year! Spambayes certainly is a showcase of the sophistication, and practicality, that can be achieved using Python 'out of the box'.

Bill

 

[Daniel Klein]

http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2003/llama206.html

 

[Skip Montanaro]

Daniel> http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2003/llama206.html

I particularly liked the last sentence:

Casting for SPAMELOT will begin shortly. Run away.

Skip

 

[Terry Reedy]

Daniel> http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2003/llama206.html

I particularly liked the last sentence:

Casting for SPAMELOT will begin shortly. Run away.

I nominate whoever sent me over a thousand fake MS Update + attachment
spams in the last 24 hours.

TJR

 

[Erik Max Francis]

I nominate for hero: Spambayes!

I have never received so many virus-related spam messages as this
latest 'Swen' virus. Even the recent 'Klez' virus didn't come close
on volume of spam messages received.

I haven't seen any either, and my spam filters don't use Bayesian
methods. The problem with this latest round of worm spam isn't that
it's bypassing filters (I just have some reasonably sane filtering rules
in my system, certainly nothing customized to this latest worm attack --
I don't even really know which rules are stopping it), it's putting
significant loads on mail servers. Unfortunately, running an intensive,
per-user customized spam filtering solution like Spambayes _increases_
that load.

 

[Timo Virkkala]

significant loads on mail servers. Unfortunately, running an intensive,
per-user customized spam filtering solution like Spambayes _increases_
that load.

I'm using Mozilla MailNews, which has a bayesian filtering system
built-in. Works like a charm =)

 

[Timo Virkkala]

I'm using Mozilla MailNews, which has a bayesian filtering system
built-in. Works like a charm =)

....point beint, the filtering runs on my computer and doesn't waste any
mail server resources.

Shouldn't post, when I'm this tired.. It's almost 3AM here (in Finland).