On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Larry Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:33 am, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> 
> > uri BCS_URI_2E_OBFU             /=2[Ee]/
> 
> A posting from David Funk, correctly points out that "=2E" is valid
> Quoted-Printable, and is decoded correctly by spamassassing, before the
> URI rules.

Hm.  If that's the case, why would the above rule ever fire?  It fires
here (SA 2.61) on the URL "http://www=2esale-oem=2ebiz/adv12/?e7";

> 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>

That's a good point.  I'll modify the rule to only look at the domain 
part.

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