Except for formal letters to administrative addresses. Dear Bob was a frivolous and incorrect example. It is really Sir/Madam
As Alex noted, I coils score it lower,bit am concerned on the overall effect. I'lltest first. Cheers. RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: >On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:47:20 +0200 >Simon Loewenthal wrote: > >> >> Evening all, >> >> A great majority of our ham starts with Dear Sir/ Dear Madam / Dear >> Bob. >> >> Therefore I've always wondered why this this is scored so highly: >> >> * 2.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)' >> >> >> Does anyone know the rational behind this, or is our user base simply >> communicating on a higher level? :) I imagine the rational is >> sound, but I do not know what it is. >> >> > >The test is > >/\bDear (?:IT\W|Internet|candidate|sirs?|madam|investor|travell?er|car >shopper|web)\b/i > >So it wont hit Dear Bob, but will hit Dear Sir etc. It seems >reasonable, they're all forms of address that typically wouldn't be >used if the recipient's name were known to the sender.
