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[Matt Kettler]

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Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:

> Filtering on words alone is asking for trouble (aka FP's):
> http://www.epinions.com/content_1610588292


Agreed. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, carefully consider the possible contexts for 
your rule. ALWAYS include word-boundaries where-ever possible to constrain 
matches. marsexplorer doesn't match /\bsex\b/ but does match /sex/.

see the "Writing better rules" section of:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules

(Note: the suggestion of using a web search is very powerful indeed. Gives you a 
  very quick idea of things that could possibly match a word/phrase of interest.)

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