ot: habeas? not spam?

[Chris W. Parker]

i just got an email that purported to be certified "not spam" by Habeas.
here's what mailscanner and friends thought of it:

X-ATI-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SORBS-DNSBL, SpamAssassin
(score=-5.071,
        required 3.8, HABEAS_SWE -8.00, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG 1.72,
        LINES_OF_YELLING 0.01, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.10,
        MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI 1.10)

but the stupid thing about it is that the email is *CLEARLY* spam.
here's the body of the message:

"Our physicians specialize in consulting with privacy-minded individuals
and prescribing popular medications, without the hassle of traditional
office visits. %RND_AD_2 Plus: %RND_ALL_OTHER_MEDS All medications are
FDA approved. Buy online in the comfort of your home.. Use Microsoft
Internet Explorer to view the following website: www.%RND_HOST. Please
copy and paste the URL on your browser's address field. %RND_PHRASE
%RND_PHRASE %RND_PHRASE %RND_PHRASE"

how is that not spam?

so if anyone can pretend to be certified spam free by Habeas by just
adding some special headers, how is that going to cut down spam? it's
like the evil bit from RFC3514[1].


chris.

1. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3514.html

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