Re: [Fwd: Better check your sig now you are a spammer :-)]

[Ron McKeating]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 16:54, Matt Kettler wrote:
 At 09:01 AM 10/6/2004, Ron McKeating wrote:
 
 Nigel M kindly sent me this. we will have to think of new job titles
 unless SA can detect the difference between specialist and cialis. Ooops
 now nobody will see this email.
 
 SA can, does and will detect the difference. However, poorly written add-on 
 rules can do whatever they like.
 
 CIALIS2 is no part of any release of SA from 2.0 through 3.0.0. (Yes I did 
 check them all with grep -r).
 
 All of the drug rules in 20_drugs.cf from SA 3.0 have proper \b's at the 
 head and foot of the regex, which force a word-boundary.
 
  From the looks of it, the administrator of rioja.localnet decided to add 
 his/her own rules, and failed to properly insert \b's where he/she should 
 have.
 
 Any cialis rule should look something like:
   body CIALIS/\bCialis\b/i
 
 not:
   body CIALIS2   /Cialis/i
 
 Sorry, but SA can't do anything to fix bad regex writing on the part of the 
 end user. 

Then I stand corrected and apologise for casting any aspersions on the
reputation of SA. Still made I larf tho.

-- 
Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
01509 222329

RE: [Fwd: Better check your sig now you are a spammer :-)]

[Ron McKeating]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.0 required=4.0 tests=CIALIS2 autolearn=no 
   version=2.64
 X-Spam-Report: 
   *  4.0 CIALIS2 BODY: Contains the word cialis.
 
 
 This is not a SA problem, this is a User Problem.
 
 Whoever creates a word-matching rule that, alone, gives the required number
 of points to flag a mail as Spam, deserves what he gets (or gets not, as in
 this example).
 
So where did this rule come from ?


 Antidrug only applies 1.5 points for finding /\bCialis\b/I
 
   - Ríkharður
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Ron McKeating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: 06 October, 2004 3:01 PM
 To: spam
 Subject: [Fwd: Better check your sig now you are a spammer :-)]
 
 
 Nigel M kindly sent me this. we will have to think of new job titles unless
 SA can detect the difference between specialist and cialis. Ooops now nobody
 will see this email.
 
 Ron
-- 
Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
01509 222329