- depending on how your ISP (and you) do your filtering, you might be losing e-mail... -- Spam Assassin is a pretty widely used e-mail filtering program.
One of the rules it uses is checking the date on incoming e-mail. If it's wrong, then some points are added to the "is this spam?" score. It seems that up until a rushed update the afternoon of Jan. 1st, 2010, the standard installations, using the default rule set, considered the year "2010" to be way off in the future. Accordingly they gave e-mail with that date an automatic 3.5 points. Five points gets you to the "spam threshold", so lots of material coming through on the new year got clobbered. It seems the "year date" was hard/hand coded, as opposed to making a comparison to "today's" date. The SpamAssassin folk have a new version which corrects this problem. Folk running SA can also modify that one rule set and bypass the issue. Details: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/FH_DATE_PAST_20XX https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269 _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [email protected] [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
