At Fri Jun 27 23:52:58 2003, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 21:39, Rick Beebe wrote: > > I'd like to appeal to the SA collective to change the name of the > > PENIS_ENLARGE tests to something a little more innocuous. Apparently > > some people find it offensive to see it in their email. > > So how do they feel about rules called EJACULATION, CUM_SHOT, RAPE ? > If that's what the rule matches, that's what the rule should be called, > otherwise we're constantly looking up what some cryptic rule name is > for.
One of the objections that people have to spam is the language it uses. While words like "penis" are perfectly correct English, some people will simply not like seeing it. In the case of the PENIS_ENLARGE rules, they could be BIGGER_BODY_PARTS and be understandable in a way that "bigger bits" might not be. I agree that this is not so easy in all cases - it's a question of how accurately the rule name and description need to describe the content found. > Seriously though, the rule names and descriptions are a little informal > in places. I've seen some effort go into tidying up some rule names for > 2.60, it would be nice to see them all with "management-safe" > descriptions as well. I think this is a good point - there's a noticable difference in the style of the descriptions in places. I'd guess that many of the more informal descriptions were in the earliest versions of SA before it had such a large userbase. The ones I can find are (some of these are judgement calls): describe NO_QS_ASKED Doesn't ask any questions describe FOR_FREE No such thing as a free lunch (1) describe COMPLETELY_FREE No such thing as a free lunch (2) describe NO_COST No such thing as a free lunch (3) * I don't know how widely understood "no such thing as a free lunch" is. describe DEAR_FRIEND Dear Friend? That's not very dear! describe EXCUSE_12 Nobody's perfect describe EXCUSE_16 I wonder how many emails they sent in error describe TARGETED Targeted Traffic / Email Addresses describe RESISTANCE_IS_FUTILE Resistance to this spam is futile describe READ_TO_END You'd better read all of this spam! describe ALL_NATURAL Spam is 100% natural?! describe RISK_FREE Risk free. Suuurreeee.... describe CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations - you've been scammed? describe RICH If only it were that easy describe YOU_WON Who really wins? describe ONE_TIME One Time Rip Off describe UNCLAIMED_MONEY People just leave money laying around describe DONT_DELETE Don't delete me! Nooooo!!!! describe WORRY_FREE No Worries, Mate Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
