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:
[begin quote] 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? [end quote] -- sidney
