Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:46:53 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> Cc: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I KINDLY NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE Message-ID: <20020806174653.GA2124@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <86wur3x5jy.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020804120643.02df9810@mail.face2interface.com> <20020805025023.K94408-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> <20020805091120.GB1066@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <86it2p2mfn.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <20020805025023.K94408-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> <86n0s12mgo.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <20020806092046.GQ1066@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <86wur3x5jy.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:25:53AM -0700, Ken McGlothlen wrote:
> If I had blocked all-cap subject lines (assuming "Re:" doesn't
> count), I would have missed out on the following messages just this
> month:
>
> 08/01: IT'S A BOY!!!
> WHAT?!
> BRANDON
> 08/02: CARING FOR THE ORPHAN KITTEN
> 08/04: Re: I KINDLY NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE
> 08/05: Re: I KINDLY NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE
> I'M SICK AS A DOG
> 08/06: STILL SICK
> Re: I KINDLY NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE
>
> All of those were legitimate messages. In fact, of my spam folder, the
> majority are mixed case.
Curiously enough, SpamAssassin gives all caps subject lines a score of
-0.1 --- ie. it counts slightly against the decision to categorise a
message as spam. SpamAssassin is in ports: mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
and mail/spamass-milter. I'm already tempted to recommend
unreservededly, but as I just installed it a couple of days ago, that
would probably be a little premature.
Cheers,
Matthew
--
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