On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Brent Sims wrote:
My style of writing is rather flamboyant... I tend to use lots of
!!! and ... and CAPS. And so there is no one to blame but my self. At the
very same time however, as someone who does not spam, but who manages a
high quality mailing list, I personally have a bit of a problem with
this kind of stuff...
"this kind of stuff" being what? Filtering on things like multiple
exclamation marks?
Granted, that by itself is not adequate reason to consider a message as
being spam, which is why it's given a low weight in my ruleset, and is not
solely a cause for bouncing - unless it happens many times in the same
message.
I also white-list mailing lists I belong to before that particular ruleset
is run.
It is entirely possible that bouncing a message based on *any* non-textual
content is a bad idea.
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, John D. Hardin wrote:
It would be nice if there was a way to tell procmail to process the body
of the message, skipping over the encoded portions of any encoded
attachments (i.e. the UUE or base64 sections).
Some of my rules for spam trapping (such as, for example, three or more
exclamation points in a row) have hit in the body of an encoded
attachment, bouncing an otherwise-acceptable piece of mail.
--
John Hardin KA7OHZ
jhardin(_at_)wolfenet(_dot_)com
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PGP key fingerprint: A3 0C 5B C2 EF 0D 2C E5 E9 BF C8 33 A7 A9 CE 76
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