[CLUE-Cert] Next meeting & spam issues

[Dennis J Perkins]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

>On 08-25 10:07, Ski Dawg wrote:
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>>Well, we'll see if this one gets through. Not sure why this happened. I
>>am not running any kind of mail server, so it probably an issue with my
>>isp. I have forwarded them your message.
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>This message got through with only a 2.4 score.
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>>The 209.245.5.230 looks like an address that they would assign to my
>>machine when I dial in, but I don't know if that was the case or not (
>>don't have that logged). The ip address of the server I use to send mail
>>is 63.137.244.6, so that isn't it. I wonder if 209.245.5.230 got flagged
>>in the past by someone else as a spam address, then that person/group
>>released it.
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>>The capital words were since I capitalized clue-cert. It seems a little
>>curious since the words clue-cert were capitalized in the subject and
>>the body of the message, SpamAssassin says that it is a 22% chance that
>>the message is spam. Well, they have done a lot more research on the
>>subject than I have. 
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>I'll say. Apparently, it even uses genetic algorithms in some capacity.
>Also, here is a list of tests it does:
>http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html
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>These guys have taken an annoying problem, and turned it on its head by
>building an innovative solution.  Since installing this thing yesterday, it
>correctly identified 16 pieces of junk mail, missed one, and gave a false
>positive for one (yours). Not too shabby. And I usually get more spam during
>the weekday. I can't express how cool this software is. And the time it took
>to integrate with my fetchmail/procmail/mutt setup was just minutes, really.
>If I hadn't just gotten laid off, I'd be sending these guys a big check.
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>>I also have no idea what the SMTPD32 part is. I did a quick google
>>search for it, but didn't see anything that would explain it.
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>I can't find anything either. My guess is that maybe it's commonly used for
>a bulk mailer? Or maybe it's notoriously buggy and can be hijacked easily?
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>>As for the meeting, I don't have a preference if we do it Monday (as in
>>tomorrow) or do it the second Monday of the month. I agree that a month
>>is a little long, but if it can't be helped, then it can't be helped.
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>Since it's just us that seem to be on here, let's have a vote, you and I.
>No, wait. I guess only Jef's vote that really matters, since his company
>provides the meeting place. :)
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I don't mind if we meet tomorrow or maybe on Tuesday next week.  If we 
meet tomorrow, could someone let me know at djperkins77 at hotmail.com?  I 
can't check my home account from work right now.