Well I’m using spambayes to do spam filter work, and it does do its work well: It will only move the mails it’s sure are spams to the spam folder, and the mails it’s sure are not spam to the non-spam folder. And something in between to the unsure folder.
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Posted 31 August 2007
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I reached Joe Gregorio’s blog today when looking around the net. And besides the nice animation, the author has a clever way to fight blog spams. I’m quoting his/her words below:
You must enter your name followed by something in parentheses, either
an email address or the URI of your web site. For example: If you
don’t […]
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Posted 25 June 2007
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There became more and more spam post on my blog, so I decide to fight with them.
There are several ways I can think off:
personal verify. That is, I review every post and decide if it should go into my blog. Well I don’t have time for this.
Only registered user can post. I don’t have such […]
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Posted 11 September 2006
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Well it’s my mistake that I didn’t take a close look to the comment of my blog. However when I take a look today, I found thousands of spam posts there. And I have to delete all of them.
I think it’s time to setup some kind of spam filter or human approve thing. Human approve […]
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Posted 28 August 2006
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Captcha stands for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”, which is the small images we usually see when registering or logining to some systems like free email. It is developted to protect from robots. See the wikipidia page for detail.
There are several Python packages implementing this:
PyCaptcha
A cook book reciept on […]
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Posted 17 April 2006
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Here is the how to
Install the /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin and /usr/ports/mail/spamass-rules port
Put these in /etc/rc.conf
spamd_enable="YES"
spamd_flags="-d -m 1 -r ${spamd_pidfile}"
The “-m 1″ said only folkone spamd instance. I don’t have too much trafic so one instance is OK.
copy my local.cf to /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin and restart spamd to check the rules out.
There are two choices for using spamassassin with exim: […]
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