> -----Original Message----- > From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 03:09 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: move "full" rule functionality into a default-off plugin > > Let me suggest that this is a *REALLY* *BAD* idea. > No, make that "an *EXCEPTIONALLY* *AWFUL* idea". > > Rawbody rules are useless for 80% of the things they should > detect because they only handle one line at a time, and > spammers 5 years ago leanred they can break HTML over two > lines and disable all useful HTML checks that aren't evals. > > Dallas's stuff that would get around this is hung up in > review because Michael either dislikes the idea of useful > rules, or insists they have to be plugins, or noticed that it > fixes the rawbody rule problem and makes them useful, so is > against it. >
If nothing else, I am for simply changing the way rawbody rules are evaluated... Because the current line by line evaluation is too restrictive, and using a handfull of rules and meta'ing them together to match something that wraps across multiple lines is kludgly at best. D
