ot: habeas? not spam?

[Julian Field]

At 01:05 28/05/2004, you 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].

Most people have already changed the HABEAS_SWE score to either -2 or 0 as
it has been effectively killed off by the spammers. This was discussed here
a lot quite some time ago. Search the archives for habeas and you should
find the discussion.
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