Hello Andy,

Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 10:22:15 AM, you wrote:

>> I've just received a new version of the same old message which was missed
>> by the Mr Wiggly rules.

AB> Persistant little swine this one...  The following works nicely for me and
AB> has generated no false positives yet (hence the high score), YMMV:

AB> # Look for URIs linking to a .GIF or .JPG with one or two letters
AB> # then one or two numbers as the name
AB> uri       AMB_IMAGE_CONTENT  /\/[a-z][a-z]?[0-9][0-9]?\.(gif|jpg)/i
AB> describe  AMB_IMAGE_CONTENT  Contains URI linking to numbered GIF or JPG
AB> score     AMB_IMAGE_CONTENT  3.0

A nice rule, but does hit ham here:

OVERALL     SPAM      HAM     S/O   SCORE  NAME
  91185    73148    18037    0.802   0.00    0.00  (all messages)
   5345     5254       91    0.934   0.81   3.00  AMB_IMAGE_CONTENT

OVERALL%   SPAM%     HAM%     S/O    RANK   SCORE  NAME
  91185    73148    18037    0.802   0.00    0.00  (all messages)
100.000  80.2193  19.7807    0.802   0.00    0.00  (all messages as %)
  5.862   7.1827   0.5045    0.934   0.81    3.00  AMB_IMAGE_CONTENT

Hits 7% of my spam, and 0.5% of my ham.

Hits heavily on about.com's newsletters, and thebluebook.com's notices.

I'm going to try a modification that excludes those specific graphics,
and see what happens...

Bob Menschel


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