in reply to Re: Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin
in thread Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin

Spaces is not the main problem with Razor. The real problem is that it reports too many false postivites. For example I have seen it marking a lot of "good" emails in Bugtraq maillist as spam.

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Re: Re: Re: Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin
by hossman (Prior) on Mar 09, 2002 at 23:57 UTC
    1) Even if it normallized spaces, it still wouldn't be able to deal with the random characters/digits that many spammers put at the end of msgs (or sometimes in the subjects) ... so there's not much point in normallizing the spaces.

    2) As I understand it, the problem with false positives is acctually a problem with people poisoning it. It won't call something "spam" unless someone says it's spam, and there are a lot of assholes out there who think it's ammusing to call widely subscribed lists "spam"

    The article makes a good suggestion, don't trust Razor outright, use it as a SpamAssasin rule that contributes to a messages score.