https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7755

--- Comment #7 from Bill Cole <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Riccardo Alfieri from comment #6)

> 
> URIBL_DBL_SPAM hits when a domain tagged as spam source is found, and that,
> in our opinion, should automatically flag an email as spam.

That is wrong. Rescoring *ANY* URIBL above the local threshold is a surefire
way to boost false positives. 

For example, the mail sent *WITH YOUR BUG COMMENT* hit URIBL_DBL_SPAM, because
you mentioned the miscreant domain in the body. 

SA is designed to be as aggressive as the most aggressive MUA at identifying
possible URIs in a message. That means it matches strings which are not in fact
URIs and so checks strings as "domains" which are not in fact domains in
context of the message. Beyond that problem, the reference to an evil domain in
an actual URI in email does not always mean that the email is spam. People do
have conversations *about* spam after all...

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