RE: Scoring Hoaxes

[E. Falk]

The problem with a ruleset is that hoaxes are *NOT* UCE. They are not 
commercial, arguably not even unsolicited. These are messages from 
people known to the recipient.

Even if you are not running any sort of auto-learning system, do you 
want your users to see mail from people they know marked as spam?

Arguably, the jdbgmgr.exe hoax could be considered viral (like one of 
those honour-system viruses that can affect *nix and Mac systems), and 
could be handled by a virus scanner - but not a spam scanner.

These e-mails are at best annoying, at worst very harmful - but they are 
not spam, and should not be included in standard spam rulesets.