> 
> At least on our generally german e-mails, the following rules 
> very often cause false positives:
> 
>  1.6 MY_CID_AND_CLOSING     SARE cid and closing
>  1.5 MY_CID_AND_STYLE       SARE cid and style
>  1.6 MY_CID_ARIAL2_CLOSING  SARE cid arial2 closing
>  1.6 MY_CID_ARIAL_STYLE     SARE cid arial2 style
>  1.5 MY_CID_AND_ARIAL2      SARE CID and Arial2
> 
> They are part of 70_sare_stocks and I'd like to know if 
> others do not have this problem or if it's a speciality of 
> german e-mails?
> 
> I looked into the ruleset and found that all of the MY_CID 
> rules refer to spam from 2006. Maybe those rules can be 
> dismissed by now?
> 
> mfg zmi
> -- 
> // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc    -----      http://it-management.at

michael,

not that it will shatter the earth, yet on a lower traffic server we see
this

Total: 247677
Ham:   127925
Spam:  119752

70_sare_stocks.cf:
  Rule Name                     Score     Ham   Spam   %of Ham   %of Spam
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  MY_CID_AND_ARIAL2              1.46   2115    274     1.65%      0.23%
  MY_CID_AND_CLOSING             1.60    133     97     0.10%      0.08%
  MY_CID_AND_STYLE               1.54    412    285     0.32%      0.24%
  MY_CID_FONT                    0.92     81     44     0.06%      0.04%
  MY_CID_ARIAL2_CLOSING          1.63      6     59     0.00%      0.05%
  MY_CID_ARIAL_STYLE             1.58    117    171     0.09%      0.14%

this is on what would be mostly "english" based emails...

would that indiate we should pull these specific rules?

:-)

 - rh

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