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"Kerry Nice" said:

> What about some reality check rules.  Yeah, you can pack in lots of things
> into the header to try and get some negative points, but do they all make
> sense in combination.  Can you have a Pine message id in the same header
> with an Outlook Express one or a Mutt User-Agent?

Yes, this is a big bonus of meta rules (new in 2.40); we can now
e.g. check for an Outlook-style forwarded message, and not give
it negative points unless it contains other signs of being from
Outlook.

> I think the headers should be paid special attention to.  The message
> content of something from the NY Times or Lockergnome might look spammy, but
> usually they don't forge or fake anything in the header.  Tone down the
> negative scores and ding them extra for any obvious forgeries.

When we get more (good) "nice" tests, the GA will assign lower
scores to them.  I think the current problem is that there are
very few really good nice tests in the current rulebase, and lots
of +ve tests that those newsletters hit, giving the GA a big
problem to solve.

--j.


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