How to avoid s p lit up wor ds?

[David Relson]

At 03:53 PM 1/18/03, Barry Gould wrote:

>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

Barry,

Code for dealing with these comments, as outlined in my "HTML comment idea" 
message is presently in development and working for consuming comments on a 
single line.  It still needs to score comments and handle comments 
including newlines.  Those features are coming ...

David