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OT: spam filtering idea

Jeff Epler jepler at unpythonic.net
Tue Jan 14 15:07:07 EST 2003 
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:32:00PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
> A reflection of this fact is that spammers are clearly testing their
> mails against SpamAssassin, whereas some mailshots I get, and want to
> get, (the Apple Developer Connection News being a striking example)
> frequently get flagged by SA as spam.

They must not be working too hard.  I have a message here with a very
spammy "copy your dee vee dee" body taken from real spam plus a few
headers and footers that gets -15 points on spamassassin 2.43 (default
weights, no whitelist or auto-whitelist).  Or maybe 2.43 isn't their
target..

Jeff
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