I see a fair amount of spam using TEXTAREA style=visibility: hidden to
hide bayes poison. Shouldn't a rule against that, or CSS-hidden text in
general, be worthwile? I couldn't find any in the default 3.1.1 ruleset, nor
at SARE.
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Magnus Holmgren wrote:
I see a fair amount of spam using TEXTAREA style=visibility: hidden to
hide bayes poison. Shouldn't a rule against that, or CSS-hidden text in
general, be worthwile? I couldn't find any in the default 3.1.1 ruleset, nor
at SARE.
It certainly seems worth testing
So, what exactly is bayes poison?
Best regards,
JD Smith
-Original Message-
From: Magnus Holmgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:58 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: TEXTAREA style=visibility: hidden
I see a fair amount of spam using TEXTAREA
JD Smith wrote:
So, what exactly is bayes poison?
Bayes poison is a collection of random words or text selections that
have nothing to do with the email subject and are only there in an
attempt to confuse the Bayes database. This doesn't really work the
way the spammers would like to think it
Bowie Bailey wrote:
JD Smith wrote:
So, what exactly is bayes poison?
Bayes poison is a collection of random words or text selections that
have nothing to do with the email subject and are only there in an
attempt to confuse the Bayes database. This doesn't really work the
way the
Matt Kettler wrote:
Magnus Holmgren wrote:
I see a fair amount of spam using TEXTAREA style=visibility: hidden to
hide bayes poison. Shouldn't a rule against that, or CSS-hidden text in
general, be worthwile? I couldn't find any in the default 3.1.1 ruleset, nor
at SARE
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:58:01PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
I see a fair amount of spam using TEXTAREA style=visibility: hidden to
hide bayes poison. Shouldn't a rule against that, or CSS-hidden text in
general, be worthwile? I couldn't find any in the default 3.1.1 ruleset, nor
Matthias Keller wrote:
Matt Kettler wrote:
Magnus Holmgren wrote:
I see a fair amount of spam using TEXTAREA style=visibility:
hidden to hide bayes poison. Shouldn't a rule against that, or
CSS-hidden text in general, be worthwile? I couldn't find any in the
default 3.1.1 ruleset, nor
Matt Kettler wrote:
Matthias Keller wrote:
Matt Kettler wrote:
Magnus Holmgren wrote:
I see a fair amount of spam using TEXTAREA style=visibility:
hidden to hide bayes poison. Shouldn't a rule against that, or
CSS-hidden text in general, be worthwile? I couldn't find any
Matthias Keller wrote:
In my opinion you shouldn't limit it to textareas as I've seen them on
DIVs and others too...
So to me, any visibility:hidden or display:none is suspect as I dont see
any legitimate use in emails
Hmm... The main uses I can think of for display:none and
Kelson wrote:
(3) Scripting that will show and hide sections in response to time or
user interaction.
...
#3 shouldn't even be a consideration, since HTML-capable email clients
should have scripting disabled for safety reasons.
s/Scripting/CSS :hover/ is perfectly reasonable, though:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:45:13AM -0700, Kelson wrote:
Nope. No legit uses in email that I can think of.
Just because you can't think of a use doesn't mean people don't use them.
I see a lot of:
div ... style=...; visibility: hidden; ...
input ... style=display: none ...
div ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
s/Scripting/CSS :hover/ is perfectly reasonable, though:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html
(doesn't work in IE 6, but works fine in Firefox, Safari, IE 7b2pr...)
D'oh!
I blame the coffee. There wasn't enough of it when I wrote my last post.
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