On 6/27/2014 3:55 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>    it seems that there's a .co.uk domain name
> used as an example in the charter text, that domain name is on a spam
> block list, and that caused a high spam score.

What is especially frustrating is that it's a formally-legal/appropriate
example name.


> I've suggested that this represents a faulty spam rule: a blacklisted
> domain name in an address field should cause a high spam score, but it
> shouldn't do so when we're talking about the domain in the body of the
> message.

Lots of spam can be detected by virtue of specific URLs that occur in
the body.  So it's entirely reasonable that it was looking there.

That said, yes, the ruleset for IETF mailing lists probably needs
tweaking, given the unusual nature of our content, with respect to
spam/anti-spam work.

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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