This was posted to the latest edition of RISKS Digest. Things like this make
me wonder just who we are fighting against when we work on SpamAssassin:

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 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:10:26 +0100
 From: Neil Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Subject: The risks of your ISP putting ads in your signature

I was trying to figure out why a perfectly legit email had got a really high
SpamAssassin score, triggering a lot of rules relating to erectile drugs, then
I realised that the problem was in a signature line, probably added by Yahoo UK.

  All New Yahoo! Mailâ:  Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons?
  Let our SpamGuard protect you."

I wonder how many, potentially important, e-mails are silently being dropped
into the bit bucket because of this ad?

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 -- sidney

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