Problems with Asian Spam

[Tom Anderson]

dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
> Arrrrgh, I refuse to live with spam.  Must be an answer.  The one  
> thats got me concerned are the spams with the inline images and the  
> random text behind the images.  Bogofilter doesnt seem to catch those.  
>   Furthermore, Im not so sure that the random text (usually snippets  
> from some book) seem to be skewing my wordlist.  Im getting a few more  
> messages caught as spam that shouldnt be.  Although all of these are  
> ticket reminders, etc.  Which shouldnt be sent to my mail server by  
> users anyway.  If anyone has a good way to kill these spam messages  
> that would be great.

I eliminate a vast majority of inline image spams by doing URIBL lookups 
on any embedded links with my script "stripsearch".  It inserts tokens 
to help bogofilter classify these.

http://www.orderamidchaos.com/bogofilter/stripsearch

Tom