ButtUgly: Main_blogentry_200204

Spam addiction

Content analysis details:   (23.5 points, 5.0 required)

 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 5.4 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
                            [score: 1.0000]
 1.0 MIME_HTML_ONLY         BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
 0.3 HTML_FONT_BIG          BODY: HTML has a big font
 1.2 HTML_90_100            BODY: Message is 90% to 100% HTML
 0.1 BIZ_TLD                URI: Contains a URL in the BIZ top-level domain
 1.2 RCVD_IN_SORBS_MISC     RBL: SORBS: sender is open proxy server
                            [68.235.202.120 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net]
 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS          RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS
                            [68.235.202.120 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net]
 0.1 RCVD_IN_NJABL          RBL: Received via a relay in dnsbl.njabl.org
                            [68.235.202.120 listed in dnsbl.njabl.org]
 0.7 RCVD_IN_DSBL           RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org
                            [<http://dsbl.org/listing?ip=68.235.202.120>]
 0.5 RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY    RBL: NJABL: sender is an open proxy
                            [68.235.202.120 listed in dnsbl.njabl.org]
 1.5 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net
              [Blocked - see <http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?68.235.202.120>]
 2.6 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK     Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
 4.2 OBFUSCATING_COMMENT    HTML comments which obfuscate text
 1.6 MISSING_MIMEOLE        Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE
 1.0 FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML    Outlook can't send HTML message only
 1.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI   Multipart message only has text/html MIME parts

I have found a new hobby. I read spam.

Well, not actually spam, but I look at the headers that SpamAssassin has added to my emails, spam and normals alike. For some reason, I find it very fascinating how SA filters mail - what it decides to be spam, and what not, and especially why it sometimes (though rarely) mistakes a spam for a real message.

So I read email headers on a late Friday night (even though I should be somewhere else), and wonder what they mean, and marvel this piece of technology with tired eyes.