Greetings fellow spam assassins! I'd like to take a moment of your time and gripe about a certain rule that seems to be causing some grief to the users at the Ocean State FreeNet (osfn.org) -- FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS.
Our system runs on a package known as FreePort, and that package dictates how we lay out our usernames. We don't get a choice in the matter. That layout is two alpha-characters followed by three digits, and runs afoul of FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS. To keep things sane at our end, knowing that we're not alone in using FreePort, we coded a local rule that groks the /[ <][a-z][a-z]\d\d\d\@/ scheme and nulls out the almost one full point score -- but (and that's a big but) we cannot do that at other sites, and we're seeing legitimate mail from our users winding up in other people's spam-buckets -- sometimes without their knowledge. May I make an appeal, on behalf of everyone using FreePort, to re- think the wisdom of the /\d\d\@/ rule? Thanks for putting up with the foregoing rant and your patience. +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston | | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------+ | http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W | +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
