It _IS_ spam. The fact it is from M$DN does not mitigate the fact that they take advantage of having your email address to load all that crap in the same boat. If you want it, whitelist it. All M$ would have to do is have their marketing cretins run their proposed email thru an internal SA set up to tune it to the proper signal/noise ratio. Since they could do that for free on a 486 from some closet they have no excuse for not meeting the acceptance level.
-----Original Message----- From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Microsoft developer newsletter tagged as spam Just to demonstrate that even a score of 10 or more doesn't guarantee that something is spam, here are the X-Spam-Status headers generated by the latest MSDN Flash newsletter: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=12.8 required=5.0 tests=FROM_NAME_NO_SPACES,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS,DOUBLE_CAPSWORD, CALL_FREE,TO_UNSUB_REPLY,LINES_OF_YELLING, LINES_OF_YELLING_3,LINES_OF_YELLING_2,MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ, UNSUB_PAGE,SUPERLONG_LINE version=2.31 With 2.40 from CVS as of a couple of weeks ago (before "make test" was failing regularly), it went even higher: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=19.4 required=5.0 tests=FROM_NAME_NO_SPACES,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS,OFFER,SAVE_MONEY, SAVE_BUCKS,DO_IT_TODAY,FREE_CAP,CALL_FREE, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY,LINES_OF_YELLING,LINES_OF_YELLING_3, LINES_OF_YELLING_2,SUPERLONG_LINE,DOUBLE_CAPSWORD, MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ,UNSUB_PAGE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME version=2.40 But even with CVS from this morning (hurrah, "make test" succeeds now after fixing a syntax error in rules/25_body_tests_es.cf) it's above 12: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=12.4 required=5.0 tests=SUBJECT_MONTH,FROM_NEWS_LIST,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY,OFFER,SAVE_BUCKS,SAVE_MONEY,CALL_FREE, LINES_OF_YELLING,LINES_OF_YELLING_3,LINES_OF_YELLING_2, DOUBLE_CAPSWORD,SUPERLONG_LINE,UNSUB_PAGE,MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ, MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME version=2.40 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
