Hi Matt and Mike, et al - Yes, the Habeas Warrant Mark has been the target of abuse by spammers - we (I'm the Habeas CEO) are pursuing them through legal channels.
Matt has it correct - SA 3.0 makes the mark non-abusable by tying the Habeas Whitelist (aka Habeas HUL) into the equation - the presence of the Habeas Warrant Mark in an email triggers a query to the Habeas Whitelist to verify that the sending IP is an actual Habeas validated sender of legitimate email. Also, Habeas released a couple of patches to implement this functionality in current releases of SA. Daniel Quinlan authored these patches. You can find out more information and download the patches here: http://www.habeas.com/configurationPages/spamassassin.htm Thanks - Des -----Original Message----- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 1:52 PM To: Mike Hogsett; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Habeas warrant mark At 04:32 PM 5/25/2004, Mike Hogsett wrote: >Is the "Habeas warrant mark" even useful anymore? From my end it >appears in more spam than ham. It's been being abused a lot since early this year. I've been running with the score set to -0.1 for quite a while as a result. In general, habeas is still useful, if for nothing else than baiting spammers to abuse it, and giving habeas an opportunity to sue them into the ground for it. From what I understand SA 3.0 has changes that will make it less abusable by making use of a DNSBL that reports "registered habeas servers", and only giving a strong negative score if it matches the server list, and has the mark.
