> The get a report > like this telling them what to avoid: > X-Spam-Report: 20 hits, 12 required; > * 1.0 -- Subject: contains a question mark > * 1.5 -- BODY: Asks you to click below > * 2.0 -- URI: Includes a link to send a mail with a subject > * 2.0 -- BODY: Includes a URL link to send an email > * 3.5 -- Forged yahoo.com 'Received:' header found > * 0.9 -- From and To the same address > * 1.1 -- BODY: No experience needed! > * 1.6 -- BODY: Contains "Casino" > * 5.0 -- Message text disguised using base-64 encoding > * 2.0 -- Received via a relay in ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org > [RBL check: found 11.194.228.204.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org., type: > 127.0.0.6] Or you could get a report like this, telling me that you *failed* to disguise your message as spam: X-Hammie-Disposition: No; 0.03 X-Hammie-Debug: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.04; '2.0': 0.02; 'bunch': 0.02; 'subject:': 0.02; 'asks': 0.03; 'wrote': 0.04; '1.5': 0.04; 'rejected': 0.05; "i'd": 0.06; 'mentioned': 0.06; '1.1': 0.07; 'ray': 0.07; 'encoding': 0.07; 'expected': 0.07; '(to': 0.07; 'points': 0.09; 'header': 0.09; 'mark': 0.09; 'looks': 0.09; 'disguised': 0.09; 'rejected.': 0.09; 'skip:~20': 0.09; 'group.': 0.10; "shouldn't": 0.10; "i'm": 0.13; 'skip:x 10': 0.13; 'body:': 0.16; 'skip:1 40': 0.16; 'relay': 0.16; 'keith': 0.16; 'forged': 0.16; '3.5': 0.16; "doesn't": 0.16; 'type:': 0.17; 'problem.': 0.18; 'contribute': 0.19; '5.0': 0.19; 'filter': 0.20; 'reasonable': 0.20; 'address.': 0.81; 'exactly': 0.81; 'addresses': 0.82; 'link': 0.83; 'posters': 0.84; 'bogus': 0.84; 'subject:PORN': 0.84; 'trap': 0.84; 'offer': 0.86; 'lay': 0.87; 'below': 0.89; 'click': 0.90; 'notified': 0.91; 'method': 0.91; 'email name:support': 0.95; 'videos,': 0.96; 'needed!': 0.97; 'subject:FREE': 0.99 Note that while there were several spam clues in that message (including both "FREE" and "PORN" in the subject and "support" in the email address), there weren't *enough* spam clues to offset the legitimate message clues in the same text. (Thanks to the guys at the spambayes project for an excellent filter :-) -- Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com>