Re: Mail filters (was Re: affective pronouns)

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 22:39, Tim May wrote:
> Christophe Grandsire writes:
>  > En réponse à Tim May <butsuri@...>:
>  > What a nonsense! So having one space between each word is too much
>  > white space? Your spam filter has some problems it seems...
>
> Actually, in the version I have, there are 15 spaces between "June"
> and "2002".  This isn't clear in the quoted version (there could be a
> tab in there, it's difficult to say with this client).  I'm not sure
> at what stage they got there...
Same here. I use SpamAssassin as well and got the same results. It's
fortunate that I filter messages marked "spam" into trash, but don't
mark them read to catch any false positives. This is the only false
positive it's caught until now, by the way.

>  > > |SPAM: Hit! (2.4 points)  BODY: No such thing as a free lunch
>  > > | (2) SPAM: Hit! (2.0 points)  Subject contains a unique ID
>  > > | number
>  >
>  > This one I don't understand. Does anybody know what it means?
>
> The first is a reference to the fact that you used the word "free" in
> the body.  As for the second, I guess it interpreted the date as an
> ID number used to identify what spam a reply would be in response
> to...
That's what I think as well; probably because the "2002" was the very
last word-like entity in the subject line, like unique ID numbers.

   Irina

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