On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > Point 4 - > All that is largely irrelevant to this list, but my point of interest is > why a commercial white list appears in Spamassassin with the default > scores set the way they are? It's perfectly reasonable to ask. It could > be expanded to ask if there are any plans to include whitelists from > other vendors in the default, such as Apache donator Barracuda? Perhaps > emailreg.org with a -4 score in the next SA release?
So if, after a while of wading through the debate, I understand this right, it boils down to 'are spammers buying out spamassassin rule-makers' or 'do we have to assume that spamassassin development was taken over by spammers' or some such theory? Wouldn't it be far easier to believe, that in long gone times when 'habeas' seemed to proof nonspam (I seem to remember it worked a while) somebody put that rule in. And a while later lots of people simply set their habeas rules to zero after noticing spam-with-habeas. (the oldest mails with 'Subject:.*habeas' I can find in my archive were about habeas haikus and these were beginning to be faked 2003/4). Then I personally simply forgot the whole thing ... til yesterday :-) AND if the spam-with-habeas is seldom seen it might simply vanish in the noise or hide below the other rules until somebody(!) notices. For me all this means - simply forget (zero out) the rules - and if need be file a bug/request/whatever to get them removed - but not that I'd assume that spamassassin was subverted to allow spammers? But even if it were so, it could not go on very long - somebody would(did?) wonder ... After all this debate about a negatively scored rule I'd disable it anyway, because the spammers on the list will target it specifically now, knowing it works well for them. Stucki -- Christoph von Stuckrad * * |nickname |Mail <stu...@mi.fu-berlin.de> \ Freie Universitaet Berlin |/_*|'stucki' |Tel(Mo.,Mi.):+49 30 838-75 459| Mathematik & Informatik EDV |\ *|if online| (Di,Do,Fr):+49 30 77 39 6600| Takustr. 9 / 14195 Berlin * * |on IRCnet|Fax(home): +49 30 77 39 6601/
