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From: Craig McLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 12:16 PM
To: Jean-Paul Natola
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: RULE using %
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Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Hi all
>
> These homeowner spasm are still getting through ( a lot less though since
> adding the KAM_GEO_STRING2 rule.
>
> I do NOT know how to write rules, but I have an idea that perhaps can
reduce
> the homeowner / credit spams.
>
> It would be something along the lines of;
>
> If message contains the % symbol score it .2
> If message contains the % 2 times score it .5
> If Message contains the % 3 or more times score it 1.5
[snip]
Just a quick note of caution, It's a bad idea to match on multiple
occurrences of single characters (like %). Off the top of my head, I can
think of a half-dozen opt-in newsletters which I get that offer
discounts ( "10% discount", " saving of 17%", "get 20% off" etc.) and
would easily contain a dozen "%" characters.
If you are going to match, try doing it with patterns, like (off the top
of my head, and untested!)
/(?:£\$}\s?\d+(?:[\.,]\d+)?.{1,20}\d.{1,10}%/
might attempt to match:
"$250,000 loan at 6.35%"
"£ 10000 for you just 6%!"
C.
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Craig McLean http://fukka.co.uk
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well that is why I would only score it like a total of 1.5 points, that
combined with the other KAM_GEO rule, would then take it over the 5.5
threshold, the 1.5 points on its own would not discard the message
