RE: IMPORTANT: your message to html-tidy
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly
> recommend 72 as a good default.
Why? I'm sending quoted-printable, so it can hardly be a quoting/line-wrapping issue. If I'm overlooking something, please tell me. In any case, I lowered the wrapping-threshold for non-qp-quotes (from other writers) from 76 to 74.
> > No, you can't make such a general statement that using content-based
> > filters
>
> I didn't. I said content / *context*.
>
> C-R, RBLs, Vipul's Razor, and similar tools are all _single_ _factor_
> analysis. C-R and RBLs are broad -- they're assessing source or
> putative sender, not content. Razor is highly content-specific, but
> requires someone else has seen the message and classified it first
> (granted this is highly likely).
>
> SpamAssassin is a multiple-measures analysis.
Well, then my statement only applies to the content-based measures of SA. I uphold my statements against content-based spam classification.
> > is "better" than using DNS RBLs. It wholly depends on the listing
> > policy of the RBL, and in most cases, content-based filters will be
> > the far worse option, because it only drives spammers to make their
> > spam stick out from the general mail noise less and less! I.e. after
> > prolonged, widespread use of content-based filters, spam won't be
> > easily distinguishable from your normal mail traffic anymore from a
> > machine's point of view.
>
> Bollux.
Wow, your argumentative power awes me! ;-)
> In addition to prior comments on Bayesian filtering methods, I'd like to
> see how you propose for spammers to forge known, trusted, GPG
> signatures, for example.
For instance, as a webmaster you can't depend on genuine senders signing their mail with "known, trusted GPG signatures", since by definition as a webmaster you mostly receive mail from unknown people on your webmaster account.
Even as a single, private person, I want to be able to receive mails like "Hey, I just found your homepage, but maybe you want to read this: http://why-not-to-use-uppercase-letters-in-your-email-address.org"; from unknown senders.
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