From: "Keith C. Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John Beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] (I particularly like seeing the "* 0.5 -- BODY: Possible porn - Hot, > > > Nasty, Wild, Young" rating on a children's autism mailing list...) > > > > Having read through the web page (apparently the email was the SAME HTML > > page -- argh!), I do wonder what flagged that particular match. > > The offending sentence is "We are an online discussion group in > GA for parents and caregivers of children and young adults with > disabilities." Sounds really pornographic, doesn't it? > > John Beamon may have found it amusing, but I imagine that > having his newsletter incorrectly classified as porn was one of > the things that set the guy off. The fact that "young adults" > is recognized as a porn phrase is an actual bug in > SpamAssassin, and it should be fixed. > > I reported it a while back and submitted a suggested patch, but > nothing seems to have happened: > > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2619 > > -- > Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Washington, DC
There are several other hits on this gentlemans specific mailing that would get it snagged even by the most un-draconian of filters. The one hit you described was actually on the low side of the scoring for this message. And being as such, unfortunate as it is, 'young adults' is a legitimate phrase to filter on. -JR > ---- 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith C. Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Re: False positives > Bob George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John Beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] (I particularly like seeing the "* 0.5 -- BODY: Possible porn - Hot, > > > Nasty, Wild, Young" rating on a children's autism mailing list...) > > > > Having read through the web page (apparently the email was the SAME HTML > > page -- argh!), I do wonder what flagged that particular match. > > The offending sentence is "We are an online discussion group in > GA for parents and caregivers of children and young adults with > disabilities." Sounds really pornographic, doesn't it? > > John Beamon may have found it amusing, but I imagine that > having his newsletter incorrectly classified as porn was one of > the things that set the guy off. The fact that "young adults" > is recognized as a porn phrase is an actual bug in > SpamAssassin, and it should be fixed. > > I reported it a while back and submitted a suggested patch, but > nothing seems to have happened: > > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2619 > > -- > Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Washington, DC > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
