On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:32:42PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Agreed. However, there are times where it's not worth fixing a FP case
> because its a rare case caused by a small-scale broken tool that
> violates the specs.

FWIW, this case is specifically looked for by the rule.

> Of course, I lack the time right now to write it, so unless Theo or
> someone else wants to jump on it, I'm sure patches are welcome.

I'm positive we've gone through this before, but I lack the time to go
searching for the discussion/bugs.  One that came up in a quick bugzilla
search:

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4234

The results at the time were that spam hits went down by so much, the rule
became worse.  Score generation is expected to deal with the FPs.

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