Re: UCE/UBE SPAM(Re: Will altopia join "net.*" (Usenet II)?

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From: Eli the Bearded
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 00:00

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Ralph Lindberg & Ellen Winnie <rlindber@telebyte.com> wrote:
> >File              good     bad    bar chart: - is 25xbad; | is 25xgood
> >Total:             835     117
> >Is my percentage of junk mail typical?
>   You look like you are running about 14% junk, locally I'm running about
> 3%, but then we have many (most ? I just sent the update to the guy who
> handles that part) Cyberpromo domains blocked. So if the domain shows in
> the mail it doesn't even make it to the procmail filters.

About 40% of that 'bad' is caught by one of three recipes: X-UIDL,
X-Advertisement, and from a spam domain (648 domains, mostly ones
known to be associated with Cyberpromo).

Elijah
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and maybe 5% is non-spam junk mail (lynx error messages)

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From: Eli the Bearded <usenet-tag@qz.little-neck.ny.us>
Subject: Re: UCE/UBE SPAM(Re: Will altopia join "net.*" (Usenet II)?
Date: 1997/08/21
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