I'll state the obvious and say that spammers could then latch onto this and
use it stop bypass filters.
I am of the opinion that no score would be better than a very negative
score. Very negative scores should only be reserved for content that cannot
be forged (whitelisted addresses) or would be stupid for a spammer to
include ('ie. "This is blatent spam, don't buy anything from this e-mail" in
the subject...).
The negative score could be close to zero, so that a quite a few negative
scores would be required to tip the scales, so a spammer can't just include
a key phrase to bypass the filter.
"Jeremy Zawodny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 10:00:24AM -0700, Marsha Hanchrow wrote:
>
> > This is the accounting I got for a standard, boring, and completely
> > legitimate response to an e-Bay question. These things previously
> > got negative scores. Every such response will earn 5 of these 5.6
> > points - only the 0.6 points for NO_REAL_NAME is specific to this
> > particular piece of mail.
>
> Many moons ago, I submitted this rule (from my local config) to
> counteract such problems:
>
> header Q_FOR_SELLER Subject =~ /Question for seller/
> describe Q_FOR_SELLER Subject is eBay Question for seller
> score Q_FOR_SELLER -4.0
>
> I'd have to go back through the archives, but I thought the intent was
> to test it out in the GA at some point...
>
> Jeremy
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