consistant failures on a new kind of spam

Darxus-5+gNnNaL/BD/[email protected] Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:17:50 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've been using spamprobe and spamassassin together for a while now.  Works
great.  They agree an email is spam, I don't ever look at it.  They agree
it's good it goes in my inbox.  They disagree I check it out.

We've all seen the spams trying to fool bayesian filters by including a
bunch of either quoted or specially generated text.

I've started getting spams that I can easily identify by appearance,
and spamprobe has flagged them *all* as good, even though I've retrained
it on each one as it has come in.

Here are the 9 all my spam filters have missed in the last 7 days:
http://www.chaosreigns.com/sp/failed.mbox 

And the output of "spamprobe -T score" on the last one:
http://www.chaosreigns.com/sp/574F51BA2F/score


This isn't the first time I've seen this kind of thing.  But it is the
first time spamprobe has completely failed to adapt.  Very little spam gets
through my greylisting, spamprobe, *and* spamassassin.

I have 12 more of these that were caught (only) by spamassassin since
July 26th (via RBLs / razor).

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