[TriLUG] REQUEST: Spam notifications

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:04 AM Matt Flyer via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Is the server configured to send them on regardless of the SPAM score?
>
> If so, and if this is the desired functionality, you could consider
> using a Sieve filter on the receiving end to put them in a SPAM folder
> or even directly into the circular file.
>
> In a multi user situation, it is probably best to err on the side of
> caution and pass on messages labeled as SPAM, arguing that it is better
> to pass on questionable messages than to reject one that is valid.
>
      Also, trilug at trilug.org is a mailing list, not an email account.
IMHO, it makes sense to tag spam and then let each member's mail
application decide how to handle tagged spam. To quote a certain
newspaper, "we inform, you decide."

> I myself, use a combination of must be received from a valid host
> domain that you can look up, and RBL lists and found it to be
> relatively effective.  Statistically speaking, about 10 percent of the
> inbound messages are rejected as SPAM.
>
> A few years ago, I was having a real problem with SPAM from an adaptive
> source that would counter my attempts to block it.  I finally purchased
> a subscription to a more cutting edge RBL that was one of the very few
> that was blocking those domains.  I considered it a form of defeat to
> actually have to purchase a subscription to it, but it has proven
> effective at catching the SPAM that others don't.
>

> On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 09:32 -0400, William Sutton via TriLUG wrote:
> > They were tagged as spam, yes.
> >
> > William Sutton
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 9:02 AM William Sutton via TriLUG
> > > <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have received dozens of emails over the last several months of
> > > > varying
> > > > kinds of spam; particularly:
> > > >
> > > > 1. several of the variety "I'm <name>, want to meet hot girls to
> > > > <something or other>"
> > > > 2. several of the variety "I'm <name> and hacked your Windows PC,
> > > > screenshot your nasty porn fetish and want <X> bitcoin to keep it
> > > > secret"
> > > >
> > > > Some of those I get multiple copies of per day.  In most cases, I
> > > > simply
> > > > delete them as junk, but one email of the bitcoin extortion
> > > > variety
> > > > contained a password (plaintext) that I have in fact used in the
> > > > past, and
> > > > is unique to me.  I saved that one, in case anyone on the
> > > > Steering
> > > > Committee wants to take a look....
> > > >
> > >      Were they tagged as Spam by trilug mail server? If not, do
> > > email
> > > it my way (maybe as an attachment).
> > >
> > > >
> > > > William Sutton
>
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