Re: [exim] 1/2 OT - fighting image spam

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Author: Odhiambo ワシントン
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To: klemens
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] 1/2 OT - fighting image spam
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:45 PM, klemens <zwiskle@???> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just want to share this with you:
>
> facileOCR is a new spamassassin plugin to analyze the text of images
> (using OCR).
> (It's meant to fight the current wave of all-so-colerful pills
> advertisment)
>
> It works great with spamd -- and does it's job for me.
>
> As always -- your mileage may vary.
> ( The spammers seem to change the images very frequent - changing text,
> font, ... )
>
> Keep in mind, that the OCR will for sure need some resources; it's more
> meant to try catch the rest of image-spam which made it thru all your
> other barriers.
>
> For more information & download:
> http://spielwiese.la-evento.com/facileOCR/
> (Im not the author, just promoting it a bit ;-)



This is so good to hear. Lately, even gmail filters don't catch the
image-spam.
And talking of spam, the upsurge seems to be inversely proportional to the
world economic recession - as we sink deeper into the recession, the more
the spam that we get. Makes me think that spammers are also hard hit and so
looking for more money:-)


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