"simple "block any message containing a single regex" type spam filter approaches have a sufficiently high false positive rate that they eat an unacceptable level valuable messages."
----- Transcript of session follows ----- .. while talking to mail.sourceforge.net.: >>> DATA <<< 550-This message matches a blacklisted regular expression ([Vv] *[Ii] *[Aa] ---------------
and so on for the rest of the V word.
Of course, this was rejecting one of my messages containing a spamassassin rule to try to detect obfuscated variants of the V word.
Brilliant, really.. we've got brain-dead spam filtering that rejects messages based on single body content regexes on a mailing list that's intended to discuss spam. Obviously missing yet another important lesson..
"if a mailing list is intended to contain spam messages for analysis (such as satalk/sadev) whitelist it."
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