3.0 Rules

[Richard Humphrey <ri...@multicam.com>]

Is there a list or something somewhere that states what rulesets were 
added into 3.0/ I know some of the SARE rules were added, but not sure 
which ones.

Re: 3.0 Rules

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 07:34 AM 7/12/04 -0500, Richard Humphrey wrote:
>Is there a list or something somewhere that states what rulesets were 
>added into 3.0/ I know some of the SARE rules were added, but not sure 
>which ones.


A partial list was in Daniel Q's 3.0.0 pre1 announcement email. It's not 
comprehensive, but it's a start.


On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 Daniel Quinlan wrote:

>New rules:
>
>   - SPF testing, if the Mail::SPF::Query module is installed.
>
>   - added new rules and code to combat Bayes poisoning text and random
>     hash-busters; Habeas rules now verify against the Habeas user
>     list, to combat forged marks used in spam.
>
>   - URIDNSBL rules.  These do DNSBL lookups on URLs, allowing URLs found
>     in the message body to be used in spam determination.  Added the SURBL
>     blocklist (http://www.surbl.org/).
>
>   - Spamhaus XBL and a variety of new DNSBL rules
>
>   - Hashcash support.
>
>   - added Bob Menschel's 'longwords' rules
>
>   - added 'backhair' rule, technique based on Jennifer Wheeler's ruleset
>
>   - added Matt Kettler's 'antidrug' ruleset
>
>   - added anti-fraud rules from Matt Yackley
>
>   - added some hostname-based blocklist tests based on the envelope
>     sender address.
>
>   - a *lot* of other new rules, too many to detail here