OT: Have You Noticed Something Similar

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>Kenneth Brody wrote:
>
>> Between midnight and 9AM this morning, I got 793 spams that made it
>> through my filters.  

There's some evidence that spammers increase their activity on weekends
where there are fewer admins around to deal with it.

>They're getty craft, these spammers
>
>X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MISSING_HB_SEP,
>	MISSING_SUBJECT,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,
>	UPPERCASE_25_50 autolearn=no version=3.1.8
>Received: from unknown (HELO HR-Assistant) (74.9.68.202)

>I'm tempted to turn the knob below 5. We're seeing a ton of spam that falls
>just below thresholds. What's odd is that they appear to be just probes.
>Kinda like tracer bullets, but they're foam rubber instead of depleted
>uranium.

I've had my spamassassin threshold at 4.0 for quite a while with
very few false positives.  Anything above that and below 14.00
goes into a spam folder.  Anything above 14.00 to /dev/null.

Bill
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