On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 12:45:07PM -0800, Glen wrote: > All - > For those of you who may have experienced alcohol-related blackouts in > the past 48 hours, please be advised that the year is now 2010. Good morning/day: I have received a surprising number of messages over the past 72 hours pointing out that the problem was not a "Y2.1K" bug, but rather a "Y2.01K" bug. In my defense... The problem in question surrounded a specific rule: FH_DATE_PAST_20XX . As you can see from the name of the rule, it is only supposed to hit email that was dated past 2099. However, it turns out that the rule was hitting all email past 2009. Because the rule had a base score of 20, which is well above the threshhold of 5 used by the IETF lists, almost every email sent was being tagged as Spam. ... so I was beguiled by the name of the rule, which clearly clouded by decimal-point-placement-judgement. Only in this community could I expect such overwhelming dedication to such precision. :-D I bow to the wisdom of the collective, and humbly acknowledge my decimal-point error. :-D On a more serious note... This problem exists globally, in all SpamAssassin installations worldwide, and doubtless will take days or longer for every IT department in the world to notice, research, figure out and fix. Until every SpamAssassin installtion in a user's chain of email is fixed, some email will continue to be incorrectly tagged as Spam for many of you. However, THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN FIXED AT AMS, and was fixed as of January 1. What I did, on January 1, in the late evening, was to apply a new score rule: SCORE FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0 This effectively "disabled" that rule, so that 2010 mail would no longer be tagged as Spam. I've gotten several reports this morning that mail to some lists is still being tagged as Spam. I've taken extra steps, such as resetting the autowhitelist system built into SpamAssassin, to try to bring things back to normal. In the meantime, SpamAssassin may have additional problems or interactions we haven't discovered yet, and I will be working with list moderators to identify and analyze any other spam filtering issues that may be present. One thing that often happens is that people reply to a message, but they don't end up removing the "SPAM" wording from the Subject. Therefore, that wording can be preserved through the thread and sent back and forth through the list. This does not indicate that the spam system here is still broken, this only indicates that people are resending the spam tagging in the Subject line, by hitting reply and not editing the subject. Please be mindful of this if it occurs. A happy new year - which is NOT a new century! - to you all. Glen _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf