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On Friday 19 December 2003 11:01, Scott Harris wrote:
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> 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.
> 
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> 
> 
> 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?
> 

Adding more words to and email does not make it legitimated.  If they are 
legit emails list then they will cut the fluff.  Spammer can add that to 
their emails as well as legit email list servers.  I have seen many spammers 
use stuff like that and it still is spam.

That my 2 cents.

Douglas
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