On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
> I just started using SpamAssassin, and it seems very effective.
>
> I have noticed that some of the rules which would logically seem to
> indicate that a message *is* spam have negative weightings, e.g.:
Others already explained that the GA develops the scores.
[...]
> body How dear can you be if you don't know my name? DEAR_FRIEND -0.242
This is a regular feature in emails from certain countries, notably
India. The level of politeness is a culturally significant thing and as
they become more and more involved in the Internet world, this test
becomes useless for distinguishing SPAM.
[...]
> BTW, here are some rules from my old homebrew procmail filter that
> don't appear to be in SpamAssassin:
>
> 1) look for data being passed on an href, or a cgi-bin url:
That would make every single mailing list subscription confirmation from
Mailman, Sympa and a couple of other list managers look much more like
SPAM.
Not to mention most solicited "preference change" things from websites.
[...]
> 2) All e-mail made with MS FrontPage is spam:
Lucky you -- you never got to work with people who used Frontpage
exclusively for building HTML content and mailed it around as vital
text. :)
Daniel
--
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to
someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
-- Sue Grafton
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