| Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
11:25 - You're mocking me, aren't you?
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A couple of days ago, following a keen tip in Macworld Magazine, I set up the following rule in Mail to trap all those image spams that seem to be eluding both the built-in heuristics and SpamAssassin's gimlet eye:
And for two days now it's worked great, trapping about 100 of these spams per day, reducing my inbox load to almost nothing but real messages.
And it makes perfect sense, too. I mean, who the hell would legitimately want to send me a "multipart/related" attachment, and would not already be someone I know or have corresponded with in the past? Really?
Stop me if you see where this is going.
...Well, just now, just this morning... someone I've never corresponded with sent me a "multipart/related" attachment, out of the blue.
A legitimate one.
Something I was interested in, something addressed to me personally.
Something I would never have seen if I wasn't still combing the Image Spam folder for false positives.
Gyaaahhh!
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Brian Tiemann
