On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:33 am, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Larry Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > uri     FCS_URI_NODOTS          /^[^\.]*$/
> > describe    FCS_URI_NODOTS      URI found with no Dots (.)
> > score       FCS_URI_NODOTS          3.0
>
> Thanks for this; I have it installed here.  I've also added:
>
> uri BCS_URI_2E_OBFU             /=2[Ee]/
> describe BCS_URI_2E_OBFU        URI found with obfuscated dots (.)
> score BCS_URI_2E_OBFU           3.0
>
> for even more penalties if you are deliberately obfuscating.  :-)

Brent,

A posting from David Funk, correctly points out that "=2E" is valid 
Quoted-Printable, and is decoded correctly by spamassassing, before the URI 
rules.

Further,  I've noticed a number of false positives, when simply looking for 
the "=2e" in a URI, for example (from a CNET newsletter).

 <a href="http://ct.com.com/click?q=2e-eMTGIiK~5C3CPxCHv_NO_rfUrBlR"; >
 SGI announces narrower loss</a>

Notice that the URI is valid and that the "=2e" is NOT an encoded dot, but an 
argument value.

You may wish to reduce your scoring for this rule a bit or, perhaps something 
like:

    uri BCS_URI_2E_OBFU             /^[^\.]*=2e/

would be a bit more precise?



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