> From: JRiley > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 9:43 PM > [...] > > > > 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? [...] > > 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. >
Out of a corpus of 80,000 spam messages collected over the past 5 months (sigh), I show the following hits on "young adults": teen and young adult white and Asian women maintain good bone health Young adults who get mononucleosi= girls will develop PCOS in young adulthood. Participants receive which girls will develop PCOS in young adulthood. Participants receive This simple grep won't find variously encoded forms for "young adult", but I did try the base64 forms of "young adult" and "Young adult" and saw zero hits. I'm sure who ever came up with that pattern in the first place had a good reason at the time, but it looks like this phrase occurs rather rarely in spam, and not in porn context. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
