Just seen the Russian option for the first time here, and have now ticked it.

Looks like we're on the road to getting it fixed, so thanks for your help and support

Glad I found this thread as I just discovered it was MIA in my SC Options too.


Edit later....it's back.

I used the new "Block Russian" feature for the whole of October '08

1448 valid emails reached my inbox.

5825 spams (188/d) 32 leakers (=0.55%) (111 of the spams were Blocked Russian so without this leaks might have been as high as 2.5%, depending on other block lists)

3 false positives, 3 leaks were due to a forged From: matching my personal whitelist.


This was a great improvement over Sept '08 when

1963 valid emails reached my inbox.

5176 spams ( 173/d), 94 leakers (=1.8 %) 45 appeared to be Russian.

5 False positive(s), 2 leaks were due to a forged From: matching my personal whitelist.

SpamCop Mail filtering service, my profile has all available Blocklists selected and SpamAssassin set=2.0. All spam is quick reported, all leaks are full reported.

Just to note my 'Russian' spam is no longer Cyrillic - quite a few little ones like this though, in its place - http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z2513451308za...0bfe5d56f0f458z
So maybe all that filtering folk have been doing has worked. Though I would be surprised if it was a direct cause and effect thing. But what else, why else transliterate? Я не понимаю, Ya nye ponimaj.