image-only spam -- ideas, what to do?

[dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us]

Quoting ".rp" <printer at moveupdate.com>:

> On 13 Dec 2006 at 19:48, John Villalovos wrote:
>
>> On 12/12/06, Jimmy Tang <jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie> wrote:
>> > though it doesnt directly solve the problem, i find most inlined
>> > images have a link to somewhere and stripsearch just works for mails
>> > like that.
>>
>> Personally, I find that most inline spam, that ends up in my unsure
>> folder, is an image that contains a stock pump and dump scheme or
>> something else along those lines.  The content is only in the image.
>> It also typically contains random sentences from various sources.
>>
>> So stripsearch would have no benefit, that I can tell, for something
>> like that.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
> this might help -
> still stuck with version 0.1x here (yes, version 0) and without having done
> anything manually, these type of spams got caught over 97% of the time
> after the first rush. Just the "honeypot" accounts feeding bogofilter along
> with some procmail Header recipes that also fed the bf.
> Now we are at over 99% success.
>
> ie: beware of overthinking the problem :)
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You have acounts only setup for spammers?  Cool.

ddh


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Dwayne Hottinger
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