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Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Nov 17 12:17:12 GMT 2004


How could I improve it?


On 17/11/04 12:01 pm, "Martin Hepworth" <martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM>
wrote:
> Quentin
>
> I'm getting alot of reports about 'broken links' reported by MS in emails.
>
> I quick view of the original message does indeed show the link is broken
> in some way, mainly people sending out HTML email as marketing brochures
> - ligitimate companies we deal with not 'spam' - where thet send out a
> brokeb link accidentally in footers or do a phishing style redirect to a
> link the text claims not to point to.
>
> However it is providing many false positives, and although I'm disabling
> the anti-phishing feature for those domains with a ruleset, it is making
> me contemplate turning off the feature altogether. Otherwise it merely
> suffers from the cry wolf problem.

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