Re: Phisher tricks other phishers into doing the dirty work for him...

Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <ojhk75xg7v.ln2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Nate Edel <archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >I understand that bayesian filtering works well for people who get
not
> >> >more than a few thousand spams per day.  You might look into that.
> >>
> >> /googles bayesian filtering
> >>
> >> Oh good grief, now you want me to study higher mathematics.  Read
> >> what I said above about saving time, energy, and angst.
>
> Now *you're* starting to sound like Gary Farber.  You are running
> names past me that I don't know -- and remember what I do with
> names I don't know?  :)

Which part:

> >Various boffins have already done the heavy lifting; the "filtering"
> >involves installing a program/suite that does the filtering for you.

or

> >Amavisd (which uses Spamassassin and Razor for the actual filtering)
worked
> >pretty well for me, although I got sick of maintaining my own mail
server
> >and just moved to the free version of Google apps.

The first was for your benefit. 

The second is just the names of programs (and "google apps" which is a
service) which is unlikely to be of interest to anyone who is not their
own
sysadmin... at least beyond the "ask your doctor about (brand name drug
here)" level... substituting "sysadmin" for doctor, and "(open source mail
filtering software)" for "(brand name drug here)".

> And in any case I don't need it.

Or your sysadmin may already be using it, per your other post; in any
event, it's all a matter of "let the boffins handle it."

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