On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 11:00:14PM -0800, schafer carved this out of pure phosphors: > To Spamassassin: > > My publication is double-opted in by 15,000 families with children with > autism. We are routinely victimized by incompetent software like > spamassassin because of false positives. This is just as intolerable as > spam. It is worse than spam because it victimizes the innocent in the name > of stopping spam. (And it may even be a violation of the Americans With > Disabilities Act which prohibits discrimination against the disabled) It is > rank hypocricy. > False positives are intolerable and commercial products that allow them > should be outlawed as much as spam should be.
Sorry, but you're not going to find any product that completely eliminates false positives. Don't get vitriolic because a list of patterns written by a lot of people accidentally classify your message as possible spam. Also, SpamAssassin is *not* a commercial product; it is an open source product. You have a few alternatives to ranting at a mailing list: Research a Habeas Sender Warranted Email mark. All your problems magically float away. Ask the people that are having problems recieving your news letter to add your address to the SpamAssassin "white list". All your problems magically float away. > > I do not know if this is the right place to complain as I could not find an > email address that offers feedback to the company. This arrogance stinks, > too. As if software developers don't need public feedback about their junky > products. Spamassassin isn't owned by a company at all. It's an open source collaboration with many (mostly) unpaid volunteer developers. > > This piece of junk software rates my publication 99%-100% likely to be spam. > > "* 3.0 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 99 to 100%" > > Ha! What crap. The offending email is also parked at this website page: > > http://home.doitnow.com/~edit/index.htm > > Lenny Schafer > Schafer Autism Report > > Exhibit: > > ---- Start SpamAssassin results > 7.10 points, 5.5 required; > * -0.1 -- Message-Id indicates the message was sent from MS Exchange > * 0.9 -- BODY: No such thing as a free lunch (3) > * 0.5 -- BODY: No Fees > * 0.5 -- BODY: Possible porn - Hot, Nasty, Wild, Young > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML link text says "click here" > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML font color is red > * 0.2 -- BODY: FONT Size +2 and up or 3 and up > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML font color not within safe 6x6x6 palette > * 1.5 -- BODY: Message is 20% to 30% HTML > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML has "tbody" tag > * 0.2 -- BODY: JavaScript code > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML font color is blue > * 3.0 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 99 to 100% > [score: 0.9988] > * 0.2 -- BODY: HTML contains unsafe auto-executing code > * 2.9 -- BODY: HTML has very strong "shouting" markup > * 0.4 -- URI: Uses %-escapes inside a URL's hostname > * 0.7 -- URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email address > * 0.0 -- Asks you to click below > * -4.3 -- AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment > ---- End of SpamAssassin results > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. > Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's > Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. > Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
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