On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 19:57 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:43 -0800, Robert - elists wrote:
> > backhair is a set of rules designed to catch those ugly, unsightly HTML
> > tags. Created by: Jennifer Wheeler
> >
> > are unsightly HTML tags just referring to basic HTML coding or something
> > else we should better understand as spam fighting warriors
>
> If I understand your question correctly... The latter. Obfuscation.
>
> You did have a look at the rules file and the rules description, right?
> It's about injected HTML tags "inside" words or to hide part of the
> gibberish as a means of preventing plain word matching, IIRC. It's been
Meep. Nope, it is "words obfuscated by nonsense html tags", as
mentioned at the location pointed to by CustomRulesets.
So I overlooked that link, and while I had a glimpse at the REs I
overlooked the negation in the lookahead. *sigh* Time to go look at
something else than a screen...
> a while, but if memory serves me right, Jennifer picked the rules name,
> because these stand out like, well, backhair. ;)
>
> Anyway, why are you asking? You're not pondering to use it, are you?
This stands. :)
guenther
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