> It is also important to remember that for every false positive we've seen > on the BASE64 test, there was no legitimate reason for the base64 encoding > to be used, and those legitimate E-mails were wasting bandwidth, storage > space, and resources. > > People who send out legitimate E-mail with base64 encoded text or HTML > segments are making the spam problem worse. > > For those reasons, I recommend treating E-mail that fails the BASE64 test > harshly.
While that may be true, it is also known that certain e-mail clients always send out e-mail in BASE64 do to the programmer's misconceptions of MIME. That is why we keep a list of those e-mail clients and deduct the weight added via the BASE64 test for those messages. The worse of these is Outlook Web Access on Exchange 2000. John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA 92835 www.reliancesoft.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
