On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 01:23:32 -0700 (PDT)
Happy Chap <s...@happychap.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> We started getting (over the last 2 months say) lots of spam, which
> Spamassassin isn't picking up as spam. Analysing these, they all seem
> to be of the same type where many paragraphs of random text are
> "hidden" inside an HTML comment (either contained in <!-- --> or
> inbetween /* and */ "tags").
> 
> Because of this "hidden" text, these messages are triggering BAYES_00
> which, I think, is the major influence on them not being correctly
> identified by Spamassassin as spam.
 
It's unlikely that that could push the BAYES RESULT down to BAYES_00
unless there is uncorrected mistraining.


> Do I just need to upgrade to Spamassassin 3.3.0 (I'm assuming that
> this probably won't make much difference because I'm already using
> the latest rule sets thanks to sa-update)?

I don't think the 3.2.x rules get updated much. Perhaps this is leading
to false autotraining in BAYES.

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