From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T11:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me!

On Mon August 4 2003 10:18 pm, Clifford Heath wrote:
> "make.*reservation"
> "thanks for.*regist"

On this list I can easily imagine seeing:

  Ruby Conference 2003 is rapidly approaching.  If you'd like to make a
  reservation, talk to me, if you've already registered, thanks for your 
  registration.

The rules in Spam Assasin are pretty good though.  They nail most of the 
nigerian scams, etc. that I see.  Mostly they seem to do it based on 
malformed / forged headers too, something that is much more clearly a marking 
of a spam system, but harder for people to spot.

It's just that it's always so hard to eliminate the false positives.

Oh well, the good news is that there finally is a real-world purpose to good 
AI programs.

Ben