On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:43:35PM -0500, Robert J. Accettura wrote: > out there. The reality is as more clients become HTML mail clients, it > will become more common to send just HTML mail since it's quicker, and > smaller in size. One should also note, that all HTML capable email
It depends on your client. I've seen 30 byte text messages take 4k in HTML. > Spammers tend to use both HTML/TEXT since it still serves it's purpose > as spam regardless of the client used. The exception being the ones > that use really bad spam software (those that leave lots of stupid > mistakes in the client). 23.305 59.1282 0.3679 0.994 1.00 1.00 MIME_HTML_ONLY So over 59% of my spam is _only_ HTML. No text parts. Compared to under 0.4% of my non-spam mail. > This is one of those rules that tends to cause too many good emails > gathering to many points. SpamAssassin should be orienting it's rules > to detect spam, not messages that use different standards. This > outdated rule is like considering all mail written in french to be spam. I don't know, being able to catch 59% of my spam with a 99.4% correct hit rate is in no way "outdated". Does that mean you'll have the same results? No. But that's why you can submit mass-check results. ;) > SpamAssassin 3.0 needs to have some rules added to zero in on the > typical spamer techniques (excessive commenting in code, odd spacing in > HTML, IP address used in images, says "see attached", contains)... I've I must be crazy, I thought that is how SA worked. > been really analyzing spam by hand over the past few weeks to create a > few bugs with some improved rule ideas. Expect to see quite a few over Good, we like new rule ideas. > SA needs to learn to detect Spam. With rules that will ensure email Yes, the 97% catch rate that I have now is horrible... > Detection software isn't as popular as it should be. People don't want > to miss any email. That's why we tell people not to delete their messages by default. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals." (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center)
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