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

Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <60ik75xg7v.ln2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Nate Edel <archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >For filtering email, the proper thing to do is ask whomever runs your
email
> >server (Hal?) to install filtering software.  
>
> No, Sean Fagan is my webhost and runs the email server, and in
> fact he does (a) run various filtering operations to eliminate
> egregious spam, and (b) during the periodic s****ge attacks on
> rec.arts.sf.written, sends me lines to put in my killfile to
> cancel out the s****gers' ISPs.  This may well be why I get so
> few.

Gotcha.

It's likely that the filtering he already uses includes a bayesian (sp?)
filter.  It's unlikely to be useful to put another such filter on below an
existing one.

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