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Matt Kettler writes: >At 10:35 PM 1/12/04 -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: >>What's the proper way to suggest a new filter to the SA developers? >> >>I'm getting a TON of mail with a bunch of random uncommon-but-real >>words to thwart Bayesian filtering, combined with a single picture >>link. Spamassassin is giving these only about one point apiece. >> >>The picture link never seems to come from the same domain as the >>mail. It seems like HTML mail with images not from the sender's domain >>would be a very useful test for these. > > >My gut feeling is that would not be a very good rule. Most HTML newsletters >use off-domain hosting for their images, so I think the S/O on this rule is >going to be near 0.50.. however, that would remain to be seen in reality. > >In any event, developer suggestions are covered in the FAQ: >http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/ContributingNewRules > >Admittedly more targeted to someone who has already written a rule, it's >still got the information you need. I tested that a good while ago and it hit *very* heavily on nonspam mail, I'm sorry to say. Even when code was added to discount cases like "from [EMAIL PROTECTED], img src from images.example.org", it still FP'd very very heavily. As Matt says, this is pretty much std practice for large newsletters. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFABD4rQTcbUG5Y7woRAsRKAKDcRjih7jEQyKdKwuinGDupLdog2wCdHHBf odQ3TwU4sfTqV6Pt8h3uRes= =j4S9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
