[Mimedefang] Can I bounce be looking at keywords in the body without using spamassassin?

[Kelson Vibber]

At 06:12 AM 6/4/2004, Mark Penkower wrote:
>Can I bounce be looking at keywords in the body without using spamassassin?

Can you? Yes.

Should you?  Probably not.

Blocking mail by keyword is considerably more likely to cause false 
positives than score-based filters.  Some examples:

State of Virginia.
Breast cancer study.
The city of Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
News about assassinations.
Jokes or news about certain highly-advertised drugs.
Free software.
A sextet.  (Or sextuplets, or cities like Middlesex, Essex, Wessex, etc.)
John Hancock

You can probably think of more examples.

Plus, of course, $P@/\/\/\/\ERZ can just D|5GUl$3 orr miiispel there wurdz 
2 @V0|D the keyword filter.  By the time you put together a sufficiently 
long list of variations you may as well be using something more elaborate.


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>