[spam-stopper] Re: [Simple SEO] Please moderate: "PHP PDF Generation"

[Roy Schestowitz]

___/ On Mon 22 May 2006 17:35:37 BST, [ Eric A. Meyer ] wrote : \___

>> I don't know what's going on but in the last 12 hours these guys
>> have been getting through Akismet with tons of spam.
>>
>> I'm marking them manually, but still more get through. Something may 
>> be amiss?
>
>    If it helps at all, I've been seeing the same thing with the same 
> kinds of messages.  I've manually marked about 100 over the past few 
> days (which has left me seriously wishing for a way to mass-edit 
> messages as spam).


Mike  has already alluded to this point, but change of a single figure  in
the appropriate SQL query enables you to have as many messages as you wish
per   page.   Make  use  of  the  "invert  selection  facility".  Make   a
link/shortcut  to  your  "Mass  edit" page. Lastly, purge  spam  at  fixed
intervals,  e.g. once a day. I have been doing this for a long time and  I
receive  about  150  spam  per  day on my main blog,  which  I  can  still
tolerate.


> This, paired with the astronomical increase in actual e-mail spam 
> that's been getting past SpamAssassin-- about 45% of my incoming mail 
> is spam, and it would be more like 95% if not for all the mailing 
> lists I'm on-- has me contemplating a career change. I hear truck 
> drivers make decent money.


I'm  on  the  same boat, but SA continues to intercept almost all  of  the
spam.  No false positives since it all began a year ago with the threshold
se  at  8.  Pair  this with BoxTrapper or other C/R  filter  if  you  feel
courageous  (but  be  selective account-wise). Put SpamAssassin on  to  to
reduce disruption to innocent addressees.

To  make  purging  of SA-marked spam, make use  of  colour-based  filters.
Colour  your spam based on a number of criteria, e.g. target address (make
use of multiple addresses, not just boxes/folders). You can then just scan
the  spam  with  your  eyes.  Takes me about  2  minutes  for  500  E-mail
messages...

Best wishes,

Roy

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