Archived Rules
Spam technology changes over time, and anti-spam technology must also change accordingly. Because of this, rules which at one time are very useful for identifying spam can lose their power over time, and eventually become obsolete. As SARE identifies rules which become obsolete, we will archive them here, ready to revive them should their utility return.
Archived Rulesets
| Archive # 1 | KWS Spam Sentences |
| Description: | On November 10, 2003, Colin A Bartlett contributed this set of rules to the SpamAssassin community, calling it his spamsentence.cf These sentences were taken from http://members.tripod.com/quitit/id86.htm and used by (we think one specific spammer) to try to sneak through spam filters. Colin discovered their source, and built a rule set containing all the sentences from that page. Those of us who used them were freed from this spammer. The last of these spams have fallen from Bob Menschel's corpus, which maintains four months' of spam. We therefore archive these rules. If/when a spammer is found to be using these sentences again, we will revive them. |
| Created by: | Colin A Bartlett; contributed to SARE by Bob Menschel |
| License Type: | Artistic/GPL dual |
| Status: | Archived * |
| Last update: | 2004-05-29 |
| Auto-update: | No |
| Available at: | http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/Archives/70_sare_archive_1.cf |
| Note: | |
| Sample Results: | No hits, May 28 2004 |
| bigevil.cf | |
| Description: | BigEvil looks for known spammer URLs in the spam. But is now TOO HUGE. Please use www.surbl.org! |
| Created by: | Chris S. |
| License Type: | Artistic/GPL dual |
| Status: | Obsolete * |
| Last update: | unknown |
| Auto-update: | No |
| Available at: | Link removed -- do not used this rule set file. |
| Note: | This file now generated from ws.surbl.org and will bring a large email server to its knees! Please Don't use unless you have to! Submission of new "candidates":
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| Sample Results: | N/A |