OT: spam filtering idea

[Michael Hudson]

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> writes:

> 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.

OK, "some spammers".

> 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..

A little confused -- isn't -15 verymuchnotspam in SA-land?

Cheers,
M.

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