> - more legit-list systems are following Yahoo! Groups lead, and > including links to handle unsubbing -- causing false positives. > After all, these links are *very* useful for legit-list systems.
Agreed. Topica's unsubscribe links cause trouble too. (And they're legit, despite reports to the contrary.) > - at the same time, spammers are "mutating" their text to avoid the > filters -- causing false negatives. Some of the mutations are great spam indicators. No legitimate mailing list would include a tagline like "this is emailed speech without prejudice" or "send a postcard to unsubscribe" or "to be removed, call 1-800-xxx-xxxx". Perhaps SA should focus more on those and less on simple things like "click here to unsubscribe". > There's quite a few patterns in SpamAssassin now that are too broad, in my > opinion -- these ones, and some of the PORN ones too (cf. the swedish > newsletter recently which matched "slut" -- IMO no pattern should trigger > on a single word!). Except for VIAGRA. :) > I would like to see them cut back to be more conservative -- but I've been > away for a while, and can no longer simply wade in with my delete key > flying ;) Personally I'd vote for moving the ambiguous ones into a separate file and scoring them low by default. I would give them all high scores on my personal system since I whitelist all of the mailing lists I subscribe to, but we shouldn't expect most users to bother with things like that. Of course, having negative rules for common mailing list software / systems would accomplish the same thing. (Not hugely negative, just enough to claw back a few points.) -- michael moncur mgm at starlingtech.com http://www.starlingtech.com/ "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." -- Kilgore Trout ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Caffeinated soap. No kidding. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
