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iain
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# Posted: 19 Nov 2006 03:18
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I've overhauled the OTF spam-filtering completely - and am interested to see how this affects you.
NOTE: The changes only affect @outpost10f.com addresses and aliases. Spam to (for instance) gmail.com addresses that are not forwarded from an alias@outpost10f.com will not be affected at all. When voting, please only vote for the @outpost10f.com account/alias spam amounts!
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brady
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# Posted: 19 Nov 2006 14:06
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Again, well done Iain! We've all had our fair share of SPAM (and more) and your upgrades should return some sense of balance to the force'net, as it was foreseen.
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lzrman
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# Posted: 20 Nov 2006 22:08
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I got one today after an email to the webaccount list  !
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gates
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# Posted: 21 Nov 2006 14:40
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I personally haven't noticed any decrease in the amount of spam sent to my outpost10f.com alias/address. The only ones I get are all very similar, mostly about stock options, and always have a .gif, .png, or .jpg picture attached. Some days I get none, other days I get up to 5 or 6. It averages about 15-20 a week. But the catch is each one is from a different email address, and when I go to the domain of these email addresses, they all look like normal websites. One was even a breast cancer survivor's group. If anyone wants more information, let me know!
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brady
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# Posted: 21 Nov 2006 16:56
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I'd suggest forwarding any SPAM you get through an outpost email address to Iain, including all headers. a) it's good to prove his system isn't 100% efficient (yet) and b) he can use the forwarded emails to improve our current system.
I'm off to sell my email address to as many SPAMmers as I can to prove Iain wrong some more. Join me!
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lzrman
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# Posted: 22 Nov 2006 22:01
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I have a crazy experimental idea.
Create the Outpost Email Address spam@outpost10f.com and propagate it on the internet and see how long it takes to recieve its first spam message 
Just for testing purposes that is 
Lzrman
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iain
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# Posted: 23 Nov 2006 22:22
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<!--QuoteBegin--gates+Nov. 21 2006,14:40--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (gates @ Nov. 21 2006,14:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I personally haven't noticed any decrease in the amount of spam sent to my outpost10f.com alias/address. The only ones I get are all very similar, mostly about stock options, and always have a .gif, .png, or .jpg picture attached. Some days I get none, other days I get up to 5 or 6. It averages about 15-20 a week. But the catch is each one is from a different email address, and when I go to the domain of these email addresses, they all look like normal websites. One was even a breast cancer survivor's group. If anyone wants more information, let me know!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Hi Gates!<br><br>Yes - this type of spam was slipping through the net. I've just manually configured the spam filters, a lot more - and I think it should now be catching the vast majority of this spam as well.<br><br>With other types of spam, it was already catching about 99.5% - I think we can get the same sort of results with this type too...<br><br>Do let me know the result...<br><br>Cheers!<br>~Iain
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iain
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# Posted: 23 Nov 2006 22:22
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<!--QuoteBegin--lzrman+Nov. 22 2006,22:01--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (lzrman @ Nov. 22 2006,22:01)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Create the Outpost Email Address <a href="mailto:spam@outpost10f.com">spam@outpost10f.com</a> and propagate it on the internet and see how long it takes to recieve its first spam message <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smi.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--><br><br>Just for testing purposes that is <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/win.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Already have something similar in place... <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/win.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> Ohm set it up...
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iain
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# Posted: 23 Nov 2006 22:23
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<!--QuoteBegin--brady+Nov. 21 2006,16:56--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (brady @ Nov. 21 2006,16:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm off to sell my email address to as many SPAMmers as I can to prove Iain wrong some more. Join me!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>My White and Nerdy Giraffe army will stampede you.
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