> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:13 PM
> To: Larry Gilson
> Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)
> Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?
> 
> Hello Larry,
> 
> Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 11:37:09 PM, you wrote:
> 
> LG> Along the same lines, I had the following:
> 
> LG> describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1  MY: Invisible text size
> LG> rawbody  MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1  /font\s+.*\bsize=.-\d\D/i
> LG> score    MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1  0.5
> 
> LG> describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ2  MY: Invisible text size with style
> LG> rawbody  MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ2  /size=.-\d\D style=.font-size: \dpx;\D/i
> LG> score    MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ2  0.5
> 
> LG> describe MY_RBDY_INVIMGSZE  MY: Invisible image size
> LG> rawbody  MY_RBDY_INVIMGSZE  /width=.1\D height=.1\D/i
> LG> score    MY_RBDY_INVIMGSZE  0.5
> 
> LG> They seem to hit legit opt-in advertisements though.  I would be
> LG> curious to see the results against your corpus if you are inclined
> LG> and willing to spend the time.
> 
> MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 -- 5002s/876h of 91714 corpus (74113s/17601h) 01/22/04
> 
> Note that a <font size=-1> or -2 is not an invisible font size, but
> simply a reduced font size.

Agreed.  I only name it that in the context for which I saw it - spam
obfuscation.  The intent was to make it disappear.  I did notice this one in
HTML newsletters.  I did not expect such a high ham hit though.


> MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ2 -- 463s/0h of 91714 corpus (74113s/17601h) 01/22/04
> 
> I wouldn't think that any font-size in pixels would be "invisible", since
> one could do anything from tiny to gigantic using that specification, but
> in my corpus it hits only spam.

Oohh.  I got lucky.  Again, the naming convention was more for the context
of the application.


> MY_RBDY_INVIMGSZE -- 2190s/158h of 91714 corpus (74113s/17601h) 01/22/04
> 
> ham hit is mostly HTML newsletters from accepted sources and/or
YahooGroups.

I guess this one does not surprise me.  It seems to be used for tracking.


Thanks Bob!  Your effort is much appreciated!

--Larry



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