{Spam?} RE: {Spam?} ot: habeas? not spam?

[Michael St. Laurent]

So many spammers are forging HABEAS that a lot of people are changing the
scoring for it to a positive value.  ;-D

Chris W. Parker <mailto:cparker at SWATGEAR.COM> wrote:
> 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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