RE: China revokes (REMOVED) patent so it can make locally

[Gary Smith <ga...@primeexalia.com>]

And yet mangling it still gets it marked as spam... :)  Gotta love SA

Gary Wayne Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc@surbl.org] 
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 3:01 PM
To: SpamAssassin Users
Subject: [Suspected SPAM] China revokes (REMOVED) patent so it can make
locally

Of possibly major significance to phramaspam, the Chinese
government apparently has revoked Pfizer's (REMOVED) patent so
their own companies can make it locally:

<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040805/hl_afp/china_heal
th_REMOVED)_040805111759>

> Thu Aug 5, 7:17 AM ET

> BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese pharmaceutical makers are planning to
> jointly produce a local variant of (REMOVED) after Pfizer Inc of
> the US lost its patent protection in China for the popular drug.

> Without citing a source, state media reported Wednesday the 17
> pharmaceutical companies, headed by Tonghua Hongtaomao
> Pharmaceutical Co Ltd. from northeastern China, are hoping to
> set up a joint-stock company to make an erectile dysfunction
> drug that would cost only half the price of (REMOVED).

This may create new incentives for and types of pill spams.

Jeff C.
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Jeff Chan
mailto:jeffc@surbl.org
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Re: China revokes (REMOVED) patent so it can make locally

[Ryan Moore <ry...@perigee.net>]

Gary Smith wrote:
> And yet mangling it still gets it marked as spam... :)  Gotta love SA
> 
> Gary Wayne Smith
> 

Probably because the URL included the word without mangling.

Ryan Moore
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Perigee.net Corporation
704-849-8355 (sales)
704-849-8017 (tech)
www.perigee.net

Re: China revokes (REMOVED) patent so it can make locally

[Daniel Quinlan <qu...@pathname.com>]

"Gary Smith" <ga...@primeexalia.com> writes:

> And yet mangling it still gets it marked as spam... :)  Gotta love SA

Only gets a 0, 1, or 2 points (depending on options), slightly higher if
you mangle (need to tweak that) in SpamAssassin 3.0.  Negative score if
Bayes is used.

Three morals here:

  1. Don't bother mangling.  ;-)
  2. Don't filter anti-spam mailing lists.
  3. Use Bayes.

Daniel

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Daniel Quinlan
http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/