>-----Original Message----- >From: E. Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:37 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Scoring Hoaxes > > >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.
I have to make this perfectly clear, and this is not directed at you E.Falk. SARE rulesets are in no way shape or form part of the distribution of SA. They are not standard by that means. They are not required to be used with spamassassin. No one has to use SARE rulesets in any way shape or form with spamassasin to catch spam. SARE rulesets do not come with a blessing, seal of approval, or smiley sticker from the developers of SA. SARE rules do not go thru the same testing procedure as those rules included in an official SA distro. There is no official connection between SARE and SpamAssassin distros. SARE is just SARE With that all said for reasons that are my own,......SARE ROCKS! I like the wiki idea. If we get one started, SARE can test it against our growing collections of corpa(Corpi, corpora, corcrappymcmuffin, whatever I don't care!) against the rules we come up with for hoaxes. exit0.us sounds good to me. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Charles Darwin
