[Techtalk] spam filters

[John Clarke]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:51:31 -0400, Terri Oda wrote:

> This reminds me, I'd been meaning to find out if anyone had written 
> some OCR (optical character recognition) to plug into spam assassin for 
> these stupid image-spams.  I guess since updating spam assassin hasn't 
> helped with the problem, the answer is probably no.

This recent message on the SLUG list says the answer is yes :-)

    http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/10/msg00381.html

and a follow up with a quick procmail hack to block image spam:

    http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/10/msg00382.html


Cheers,

John
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