Re: Avoid spam 'La Sante Est Bonne'

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Michelle Konzack writes:
> Salut Philippe,
> 
> 
> Am 2008-07-01 13:44:52, schrieb Philippe Couas:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > How could i avoid theses spam ?
> 
> Avec procmail?
> 
> It is a EuroPharmacy spam
> 
>  :0B
>  * ! TO_users@spamassassin\.apache\.org
>  * EuroPharmac(ie|y)
>  /dev/null

Hmm.  Michelle, is this a SpamAssassin list, or a procmail list? ;)

More seriously, if one was to use this recipe, any mention of the single
"magic word" in a mail sent to any address other than this list's, will
immediately cause that mail to be sent to the bit-bucket.  This is
false-positive-prone, and with major consequences.  It is a good deal
safer to use SpamAssassin rules, allowing false positives to be rescued
from the "spam" folder if/when they misfire. (The nature of the real world
is that there will _always_ be false positives.)

This was a core design decision I made when first designing SpamAssassin,
in response to this kind of brittle, dangerous procmail recipe.

--j.