On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 07:22:19PM -0400, Adam Katz wrote:
> Jari Fredriksson quoted himself (both on the 17th):
> >> I have not yet analysed what whitehats cause this, but this rule seems
> >> suspipicious to me at moment.
> >
> > Now I have. Legitimate bulk mailers.
> >
> > From: "NYTimes.com" <nytdir...@nytimes.com>
> > From: "Iltalehti.fi" <iltalehti-288-d690018e-1000350...@sp.iltalehti.fi>
> >
> > Newspapers. And others. Guestionable rule.
>
> Ah. Interesting. I had been suspecting either an older bug regarding
> foreign characters in correct proper names had resurfaced or you had a
> lot of correspondence with people who don't capitalize their names or
> include a last name.
>
> I've updated the rule so that it won't fire on any mail claiming
> precedence of "bulk" or "list," which should solve that issue (and
> unfortunately fire less often on real spam too).
>
> Keep in mind that this rule is only worth 0.259.
Sorry but it's not worth that either.. it's not just "people" who send mail
and even people have nicknames and whatever in their name fields. That
should have been reasoned from the beginning.
You should really get a mass check account and not test dubious rules on
your public channels.
All
OVERALL SPAM% HAM% S/O RANK SCORE NAME
0 37048 157173 0.191 0.00 0.00 (all messages)
0.00000 19.0752 80.9248 0.191 0.00 0.00 (all messages as %)
29.539 25.1943 30.5625 0.452 0.00 0.01 T_KHOP_NO_FULL_NAME
Without bulk|list
28.042 25.1107 28.7327 0.466 0.00 0.01 T_KHOP_NO_FULL_NAME
