http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3400

           Summary: Use of ASCII art to bypass spamassassin
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: 2.63
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Rules
        AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


I noticed a new kind of spam that uses ASCII art to bypass filters.

This kind of spam the ratio of punctuation to non-punctuation characters is
disproporationately large. That's probably one way of filtering such e-mail.


Here's an extract from the e-mail:


From: Grover Lindsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Grover Lindsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: verne
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on denkali
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=3.0 tests=RCVD_IN_NJABL,
        RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY autolearn=no version=2.63


____ ____ ____ ____    _  _ _  _ _  _    ___ ____ ____ _  _ ____ 1
|___ |__/ |___ |___     \/   \/   \/      |  |___ |___ |\ | [__   7
|    |  \ |___ |___    _/\_ _/\_ _/\_     |  |___ |___ | \| ___] 2
         _____
        /  _/\\  8
        | / oo           6
        \(   _\        8
         \  O/        3
         /   \     0
         ||  ||   4
         ||  ||     " http://mdd.site.voila.fr/f.htm "        1
         ||  || _____ /               5
         | \ ||(___  )           8
        // / \|_)o (  )       9
        \\ ///|)\_(    )  7
         ||   |\ )(    )           6
         ||   ) \/(____)_     ___                5
         ||   |\___/     `---' `.`.                           8
         ||   | :   _       .'   ))    3
         ||   | `..' `~~~-.'   .'__ _          7
         \\  /           '.______  ( (      0
         ((___ooO                `._\_\      5



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