"Robin Witkop-Staub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For some reason my filter is tagging excel .xls attachments.  I had a user
leave the message line and the body blank and only attach the excel and it
still got tagged.  Not sure why?

Here is my filter:
#body RAVEN_SEX                 /sex/i
#describe RAVEN_SEX             contains advertising sex by any name
#score RAVEN_SEX                50.0

This is overly simplistic. This will catch words like:


sextant
Essex, Middlesex and Sussex
sextuplets
sextillion
sexist
sextet

But that's not all.

There's a reason the existing rules to identify porn use more than a single word, and that's context. Right now you're assuming that every email that contains the word "sex" - including this one - is spam.

As for Excel files, email attachments are always converted to a series of alphanumeric characters. Presumably the letters SEX appear somewhere in the way the test file was encoded.

If you *really* want to block every single mention of sex, including comments about "the fair sex" or "Sex: M / F" on surveys or profiles, or news articles, then you should use /\bsex\b/i - the \b indicates a word boundary like a space or period. But I'd recommend against it.


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>




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