Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Greg Ward wrote: > On 04 March 2002, Matt Sergeant said: > > "Dear matt" > > But your local part is "msergeant", I just checked! How much real mail > do you get that says "Dear msergeant"? That's work email (where I don't care about spam that much) - home is matt @ sergeant.

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
>Doesn't work for me, sorry... I actually see the presence of "dear ..." >where "..." isn't sir or madam or any other generic term as a sign that >it's likely not spam. For certain most spammers aren't going to want to >send emails having: "Dear 42fudge82323" where the recipient is >[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Kerry Nice
The one I see a lot that gives me the Publisher's Clearing House customized warm fuzzy is a customized subject. I've never seen a customized dear that I can remember. I see a lot of subjects like: Hello, kerry_nice, get your free porn here I wouldn't be sure how to write something like that, ma

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
On 04 March 2002, Matt Sergeant said: > "Dear matt" But your local part is "msergeant", I just checked! How much real mail do you get that says "Dear msergeant"? > Doesn't work for me, sorry... I actually see the presence of "dear ..." > where "..." isn't sir or madam or any other generic term

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Craig Hughes
Eval tests are your friend. You can call get("To:addr") in there -- search the existing code for examples. C On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 08:16, Greg Ward wrote: > /^dear\s+$local_part/i > > ought to be worth a point or so. But I don't see a good way to do > *that* with a regex. That sort of thin

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Greg Ward wrote: > On 01 March 2002, Nels Lindquist said: > > One caveat. > > > > E-mail of the form [ "Your Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] is legal. > > > > E-mail of the form [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Your Name) ] is also legal. > > > > Not knowing much about regexp, I'm not sure if

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
On 01 March 2002, Nels Lindquist said: > One caveat. > > E-mail of the form [ "Your Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] is legal. > > E-mail of the form [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Your Name) ] is also legal. > > Not knowing much about regexp, I'm not sure if your proposed > expression handles the second cas

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-01 Thread Nels Lindquist
On 28 Feb 2002 at 16:44, Greg Ward wrote: > [I suggest a new rule] > > Here's a quick and dirty attempt: > > > > header TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPARTTo =~ /\"?(\w+)\"?\s+<\1\@[^<>]+>/i > > describe TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART Real name in "To:" equals local part > > score TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-01 Thread Craig R Hughes
From: Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Craig Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part > > On 28 February 2002, Craig Hughes said: > > Greg, I think I'm going to be busy for a fe

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 28 February 2002, Craig Hughes said: > Greg, I think I'm going to be busy for a few days just with scoring > refinements. If you could solidify the regex I'd appreciate it. OK, here's a patch relative to CVS: --- rules/20_head_tests.cf 26 Feb 2002 12:04:21 - 1.33 +++ rules/20_h

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Craig Hughes
On 2/28/02 1:44 PM, "Greg Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [I suggest a new rule] >> Here's a quick and dirty attempt: >> >> header TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPARTTo =~ /\"?(\w+)\"?\s+<\1\@[^<>]+>/i >> describe TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART Real name in "To:" equals local part >> score TO_REALNAME_EQ

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Sidney Markowitz
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 13:22, Craig Hughes wrote: > Sounds like a good rule -- even people like me who use > their name as email address probably won't have many > people using "Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; if > they're going to go to the trouble of setting > the real name, they'll now what my last

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
[I suggest a new rule] > Here's a quick and dirty attempt: > > header TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPARTTo =~ /\"?(\w+)\"?\s+<\1\@[^<>]+>/i > describe TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART Real name in "To:" equals local part > score TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART 2.5 [Craig responds] > Sounds like a good rule -- e

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Craig Hughes
Sounds like a good rule -- even people like me who use their name as email address probably won't have many people using "Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; if they're going to go to the trouble of setting the real name, they'll now what my last name is. C On 2/28/02 7:08 AM, "Greg Ward" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
On 28 February 2002, dman said: > My "real name" == my "local part". Well, not in this example since I > still have my school's address in the header, but if I use my system's > address, the From: line will be > From: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > and people who stick that directly in their addr

[SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
Does SA already have a rule for headers like this: To: gward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ? If not, I think it should -- this seems a fairly popular tactic. The one I got this morning looked like this: To: "Gward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...so any such rule should be case-insensitive and handle RFC 8