Justin Mason wrote, On 5/5/07 11:02 PM:
> Well, don't forget -- RFC-compliant != nonspam.  We're a spam-detection
> tool, not RFC-compliance-detection, so sometimes an RFC-compliant feature
> is still worth using as a rule.

Yes, I brought it up only because of the discussion about
OE_MULTIPART_RELATED where you decided not to deploy it. Some
RFC-compliant behavior can be a spam sign, but in this case also gets
FPs that cannot be distinguished, in regards to that test, from the spam
and which serves a legitimate non-spam purpose that can't be achieved in
another way.

> This is why we locked it's score to 1.0, after all.

Ah, I wondered why the score was exactly 1.0. It's rank seemed to
indicate that it would end up with a higher score.

> It looks like in that bug, the rule was added into testing -- was
> it removed later, after that point?

OE_MULTIPART_RELATED is still in rules/70_sandbox.cf with a nopublish tag.

> I'd be fine with deprecating EXTRA_MPART_TYPE and replacing it with a
> better rule/rules, I think.  Go for it ;)

I'll look at it. I don't have a high degree of certainty that there is a
non-FP'ing rule to be found there if the reality is that a bunch of
spammers and a few less clueful people like to send out HTML mail with
embedded images using Outlook Express.

 -- sidney

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