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[Tom Fillmore <address@concealed>]

Hi, there -

Thanks, that's what I was afraid of....

Unfortunately for me that doesn't work very well - I run bahai.email, which 
has about 160 lists for different communities of the Baha'i Faith 
(bahai.org).  It is getting a steady increase in the number of list-specific 
spam from the same 'people' using slightly different addresses with the same 
human name on a growing number of the lists.  I'm interpreting this to mean 
that all the spams come from the same peoples or bot network.  We're talking 
a steady increase, here.

I'll see if I can create something that monitors incoming spam, captures it 
into table(s) including headers for additional forensics, distributes new 
blockfiles per list, allows for manual review of what it's captured then 
submits the addresses to various blacklisting services.  If it proves 
worthwhile I'll create a git repository for it.  I already have Postfix 
compare all incoming addresses to several blacklist sites, we are talking 
about those that get through but are tagged as spam by spamassassin.  I know 
it's possible to have them rejected automatically but I don't want to drop 
legitimate posts with weird but OK content, and/or put a legit subscribers 
email onto a blocklist service just because they send something spamassassin 
doesn't like.

Anyway, if anyone knows of a project like this please reply with a location.  
Don't want to reinvent the wheel- my time is limited, but I've got to do 
something.

Thanks, everyone, have a happy holiday season but please play it safe.  It's 
better to miss a gathering than be on a ventilator.  :)


Tom Fillmore
southern California


The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens...
- Baha'u'llah

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 at 1:34 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) 
<address@concealed> wrote:

> On 21/12/2021 23:20, Tom Fillmore wrote:
>
> > Hi, there -
> >
> > > Am I correct in saying that each list has it's own blocklist and it is 
> > > not a centralized SQL table?
> > >
> > > Sorry if I'm missing the obvious.  :)
> > >
> > > Tom Fillmore
> > >
> > > southern California
> > >
> > > > The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens...
> > > >
> > > > /- Baha'u'llah/
>
> Hello Tom,
>
> the blocklist is located in search_filters/blocklist.txt for each list (in 
> list_data directory).
>
> It is not present in the database.
>
> Regards
>
> Racke
>
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