Hi Martin,
On Friday, October 19, 2012 03:04:44 AM Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > 3. Speaking of Penis, I'm surprised there isn't already a rule
> >
> > looking for the word in subjects, let alone in combination with
> > "Enlarge".
> > Is this intentional?
>
> The rule:
>
> header RULENAME Subkect =~ /(penis|pharmacy|med.{0,1}s)/i
>
> should match virtually all your subjects and, unless you're a pharmacist
> or medical doctor, you're most unlikely to get much mail with subjects
> that contain these strings.
Sadly, my ham corpus does contain many messages with "pharmacy" and "meds" in
the subject. I'm not a pharmacist but for some reason people do seem to enjoy
telling me about their medications.
> > 4. I see there is already a rule for puctuation-obfuscated subjects;
> >
> > what about one for case-obfuscated subjects?
>
> It is not needed: just append 'i' to force a caseless match
I meant something to specifically pick out words like phArmACy.
> I'd use a meta rule that uses (3) above as one sub-rule and a RAW body
> rule that matches a URL surrounded with whitespace as the other
> sub-rule. If you're keen, consider add in UNPARSEABLE_RELAY and write
> the metarule to fire if any two of the three subrules match.
This seems like good advice, thanks.
--Ian
