Hi Matt,
thanks for your reply.
It seems these guys know how SA treats their messages :(
There have been discussions before about "amplifying" rules, but I am not
sure whether
it is possible. I would say that both english and german versions of this
"BUSINESS PROPOSAL" share a few characteristics that could be combined
like a meta
rule
- subject all caps
- at least one run of all caps words somewhere in the body
- mentioning dollars (is detected)
- mentioning specific places (Lagos and Abijan are common - there are
spelling variants on Abidjan)
As for the all caps rule, it is hard to understand why it was written not
to fire on a single
excessively long word.
I think it was written to not fire on a single word, such as ALERT, HELP,
or HI. The length of the word was never a consideration.
Besides, the SUBJ_ALL_CAPS rule pretty much decidedly sucks as a spam rule.
Take a look at STATISTICS-set3.txt. 1.6% or spam and 0.2% of nonspam.
That's not many hits and not a very good S/O.
