[Mimedefang] regex filter unwanted words
Ben Kamen
bkamen at benjammin.net
Tue Jan 23 12:29:54 EST 2007
Or, as Kelson was once quoted (and now immortalized on my website since I laughed so hard)
>> 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>
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