From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:58:56PM -0500, Mike Coughlan wrote: > > | > Has anybody created a rule for the MyParty virus? It is trapped by our > | > virus scanner, but it would be nice to have a rule in SA to catch it. > > | Maybe this is an old philpsophical debate, but I'd be afraid of code bloat > | in catching all mail viruses on top of spam. > > True, but I suppose this time you can add the definition of 'spam' to > the argument list. On the one had, virii are "unsolicited junk mail". Spam is unsolicited commercial email, not "junk mail". I get plenty of junk mail but it's not spam. > My view on this (here, now) is : > If it is trivially easy to flag the virus within the existing SA > framework, why not? Because it's a slippery slope. SA is a heuristic spam engine. While we could stop "specific" spams we don't tend to, as they change so often. However heuristically stopping viruses is a whole other problem. It's actually in many cases technically easier (I'll talk about this at this year's Open Source Conference if you're interested), but it's a totally different ballgame, and requires some really quite deep technology. Matt. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
