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Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat Nov 4 00:21:36 UTC 2006
>>> a bit over 2% of my spam includes a (relatively well-formed) .biz URL,
>>> and well over 6% of it includes an .info URL.
>>>
>>> I understand that the reason SpamAssassin *does* flag up those e-mails
>>> with a .biz or .info TLD is simply that across their set of spam and
>>> non-spam, it does turn into a useful indicator.
>
> To me, merely 2% of spam having it doesn't justify using it as a
> prominent detector of spam. Nearly all of my spam came from .com
> domains, we should flag all .com mail as being spam...
>
> It really is a stupid way of managing spam. They're both legit domains,
> and the .info one is far more correct than the widespread misuse of .com
> for non-commercial reasons.
>
It depends on what percentage of the mail from .biz is not spam. If
messages for .biz make up 2% of his spam, but 100% of the messages
from .biz are spam, then it is justified. The question is if the
default is justified for most people. I know it is for me.
Mikkel
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