[Spambayes] [ spambayes-Bugs-696995 ] Invalid HTML comments are not ignored

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Bugs item #696995, was opened at 2003-03-04 12:55
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Invalid HTML comments are not ignored

Initial Comment:
Incorrectly terminated HTML comments are ignored by
SpamBayes, but most clients handle this gracefully.

For both of the following:
hi <!-- comment > there
hi <!-- comment > more <!-- comment 2 --> there

IE and Mozilla both render "hi there".  SpamBayes will
miss the "there".  Thus, spambayes can miss most of the
message payload even though the user sees it all.

Attaching a patch which creates a new option,
ignore_unterminated_html_comments: True, which
correctly handles this case.  If set to False, you get
the old behaviour.  If no one can see a reason to keep
the existing behaviour, then this can be dropped as an
option.

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