I wanted to stir up some conversation about spam laws, disclosure
and bulk emails/mailing lists.
I have a user who subscribes to a few mailing lists and they have
recently started adding the following disclosure to the emails they
send:
***************************************************
This message is sent in compliance of the new email bill section 301. Under
Bill S. 1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th US Congress. This message cannot
be considered Spam as long as we include the way to be removed, Paragraph
(a)(c) of S. 1618, further transmissions to you by the sender of this email
may be stopped at no cost to you by UNSUBSCRIBING.
***************************************************
This, of course, causes rules to be triggered such as:
Content analysis details: (10.1 points, 6.0 required)
pts rule name description
---- ----------------------
--------------------------------------------------
2.8 SENT_IN_COMPLIANCE BODY: Claims compliance with spam regulations
0.7 NO_COST BODY: No such thing as a free lunch (3)
0.6 OPT_IN_CAPS BODY: Talks about opting in (capitalized
version)
2.7 BILL_1618 BODY: Claims compliance with Senate Bill 1618
0.7 CANNOT_BE_SPAM BODY: Claims "cannot be considered spam"
0.3 HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN BODY: HTML font color is unknown to us
0.1 HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE BODY: HTML link text says "click here"
1.2 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY BODY: Multipart message mostly text/html MIME
0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
1.0 HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE BODY: HTML font color is same as background
0.5 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML
-4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
[score: 0.0000]
3.0 BigEvilList_37 URI: Generated BigEvilList_37
1.4 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date
0.0 CLICK_BELOW Asks you to click below
The first 5 are the ones that really penalized this message.
Aside from the obvious solution of whitelisting this domain, what are the
options to allow these, and future messages through? Bayes clearly caught
it as ham, but didn't negate enough of the other hits.
Also, what are the potential future ramifications for SA as more and more
legit mailing list emailers start adding such verbage to demonstrate their
legitimacy?
Scott
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