Cedric Tardif wrote: > There is a lot of spam recently that are using at begining of e-mail with a > joke or a news.
Yes. I have actually been enjoying reading some of those. > When i filter those spam as --spam should i remove the joke/news part of the > email to prevent spamassassin to tag ham message as spam ? You don't need to. The automated machinery will deduce the right thing automatically. The non-spam part of the payload will end up not being a factor either way. Only the spammy part will end up having an affect. If spammers never used normal words then the normal words would become a non-spam sign and would be assigned negative values. History has shown that negative scores end up getting used by spammers to attack the mechanism. But because those normal words will show up both in spam and non-spam they won't get assigned any value neither spammy nor non-spammy. They will be neutral. So IMHO spammers including non-spam sections actually keeps a possible attack hole closed. Bob
