On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:13, Matt Kettler <mkettler...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:17 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:
>>
>>> Maxim Masiutin wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>>> In The Bat!, both "Re numbering" and "X-Mailer" options are
>>>> configurable in the program interface, and the user is able to
>>>> independently switch them on and off, [...]
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> Interesting. The rule appears to explicitly check for messages generated
>>> by The Bat! and ignores them.
>>>
>>
>> Yup, so we get a FP for The Bat! when the user disables the X-Mailer
>> option, but keeps the Re numbering.
>>
>>
>>> Do the affected messages have an X-Mailer header containing "The Bat!"?
>>>
>>> Here's the relevant bits of the rule:
>>>
>>> header __THEBAT_MUA               X-Mailer =~ /The Bat!/
>>> header __SUBJ_RE_NUM       Subject =~ /^\s*Re\[\d+\]:/i
>>> meta SUBJ_RE_NUM   !__THEBAT_MUA && __SUBJ_RE_NUM
>>>
>>
>> MSECS      SPAM%     HAM%     S/O    RANK   SCORE  NAME WHO/AGE
>> 0.00000   0.0001   0.0000   1.000    0.46    2.80  SUBJ_RE_NUM
>>
>> That's 2 hits out of 1.7M spams in yesterday's mass-check, no FPs there
>> though. Would the GA even keep that rule with a low score, or does it
>> suggest rules to be dropped? (Sorry, never looked at that part yet.)
>>
>>
> I'd be +1 on dropping it. It seems a silly criteria, and it's clearly
> not effective at present.

+1

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