[SPAM] RFC: SpamAssassin subject munging considered harmful :)

[Tristan Santore]

On 02/02/10 16:22, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On 2010-02-02 03:02:18 PM, Tristan Santore wrote:
>    
>> I like the spam headers, and have yet to see a single message marked as spam,
>> which originated from a user. And I am on multiple lists.
>> Also, without the headers of the message, it is hard to say what is causing
>> said scoring. It could be the users end or maybe even their fault, i.e. using a
>> SMTP they should not. As it happened to one of my clients. Also, just because
>> it is marked [spam], does not mean it gets removed, and I believe most people
>> can use common sense in that regard.
>>      
> Todd attached the message and full headers, and in this case, it seems
> that the presence of a domain name with ".com" in the middle caused a
> huge spam score, which definitely seems unreasonable.
>
> I agree with Todd that the spam headers suffice without having to munge
> the subject.
>
> Thanks,
> Ricky
>    
>
>
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If the score originates from com2com scoring, then the filter needs 
fixing, as it did not look for \.com but anything com. This looks more 
like a bug that needs to be submitted to the relevant developers.


Regards,

Tristan

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