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----- Original Message ----- From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SA's performance with mailing lists > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:57:30PM -0800, Craig Hughes wrote: > | On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 06:22, dman wrote: > | > Just for elightenment, take a look at the newsletters again. Do they > | > sound at all similar to spam messages you've seen? SA is only a text > | > processor, not an actual human, so it can only do so much. There are > | > some legitimate mails that are so similar to spam mails that it is > | > nearly impossible to automatically differentiate. > | > | Actually, something I've noticed is that otherwise legitimate-looking > | email frequently gets tripped up by an ad tacked on the bottom of the > | mail -- this happens with mailing lists trying to support themselves, > | but also with things like Yahoo mail or hotmail inserting their stuff at > | the bottoms of messages. > > Yeah, that too. > > | I've been trying to think of a way to spot those "semi-spam" sig's > | and not score them as high, without giving an easy way for spammers > | to sneak through. Any thoughts? > > My thoughts are to boycott such annoying services as much as possible. > Seeing such massive amounts of worthless text in every email is > annoying. > > One filter I've tried to create (but not successfully yet) is one that > unmunges subjects and trailers. In particular I want to remove the > subject tags and unsubscribe instructions that some mail lists include > (they belong in headers like List-Id: and List-Unsubscribe:) or the > disclaimers and virus-scanned notices some people include. > > Are the yahoo, etc, ads sufficiently structured so they can be > reliably stripped out prior to SA's scanning? If so, then such a > filter could be very useful -- remove the ad (you don't want it > anyway, do you?) before it has a chacne to trip up SA. > > -D > > -- > > Better a little with righteousness > than much gain with injustice. > Proverbs 16:8 > > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
