on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:05:28PM -0800, Jordan Ritter wrote: > It's really difficult to strike a balance between technical > convenience and giving the system the input it needs to operate > properly.. thoughts?
I don't read HTML email, so my feedback may be from the far left side of the screen here, but it seems to me that most spam is either expressed as plain text, as multipart/alternative (in which the plain text part may well chide the poor recipient for not having an HTML capable mail reader, or contain a plain text version of the message, and the text/html part is usually the spam) or as text/html. I'm not sure why Cloudmark/Razor would even want to bother with message parts that are of any other type. Do you expect spammers to start sending out multipart messages consisting entirely of graphics? Or is this already happening? If so, that would seem to make the job a lot easier, as those messages would be /only/ graphics. If there is a high degree of mixed content, with spam in plain text or HTML plus some standards graphical embellishments, what's the problem? Grade the message on its spam content of the plain and html parts, and discard a ranking on the embellishments. Of course, there's also the question of base64 and other encoding schemes for message parts, but I generally consider those to be spam anyway if that's the only thing in the message. Steve -- hesketh.com/inc. v: (919) 834-2552 f: (919) 834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com The average person needs trepanation like he needs a hole in the head. -ca ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
