Kenneth Porter writes:
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:02 PM +0100 Justin Mason <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > This is just in the dev ruleset -- for 3.3.0 -- so you're best off adding
> > it manually.  right now it's like this:
> >
> >   # thanks to Phil Randal on the users list for this tip
> >   rawbody __PR_TD_NOWRAP      /<td nowrap>/
> >   meta PR_TD_NOWRAP_BAT     (__THEBAT_MUA && __PR_TD_NOWRAP)
> 
> I just want to report that this has been an incredibly effective rule, with 
> no false positives. I'm amazed that I'm still catching tons of spam with 
> it, that the spammers haven't changed their code. (But I've probably jinxed 
> it by saying so, and it will be replaced tomorrow.)

The botnet spammers don't seem to work like that.  One of the more
successful rules recently was detailed in a very high-profile research
paper over a year ago, yet even now still hits spam:
http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?q=JM_REACTOR_MAILER

--j.

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