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RE: [Asrg] "more readable"

2003-06-23 11:55:39

That's true of privacy and security complaints but not spam. 
A safe and sane HTML-enabled MUA that doesn't dereference URLs and
never executes scripts without the explict informed opinion of a human
user would be an irritant for spam filtering.  Spam filtering must
deal with <strange tags> and <!--comments-->, just to name two things
that are easy to handle and not mentioning other things that are more
hassle since there's no reason instruct the slower spammers reading
this mailing list.

It is not that difficult to strip out HTML tags with a FSR of about
10 states. 

Strange tags and com<!-- stupid stuff -->ments can be elided but they
are a very reliable spam indicator. If email has an html comment in the
middle of a spamword that increases the probability it is spam.

This is one case of a spam sender countermeasure that backfires.

        Phill

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