How to avoid s p lit up wor ds?

[Barry Gould]

At 01:53 PM 1/18/2003 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Barry Gould <BarryGould at PennySaverUSA.net> writes:
>
> > Other alternatives that come to mind would include making the HTML
> > comment tag <!-- --> get highly penalized, as it would only show up
> > infrequently except in spam.
>
>I'd be chary about penalizing comments.
>
>1. this is a matter of SpamAssassin, not of bogofilter
>
>2. the comments might be used by an MUA author to advertise or leave
>debug information.
>
>3. I have virtually never seen compact HTML from the usual suspects
>(Windows MUAs sending HTML), it's highly wasteful, and I'd rather let
>the decision "do not accept html" to the user.
>
>--
>Matthias Andree

I generally agree with you, but a message containing dozens or hundreds of 
these comments is obviously spam.

I do realize there will be some legitimate comments, but problably not more 
than a few in one message.

Barry