[BLU/Officers] Fix to SpamAssassin rules

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 06/06/2011 01:50 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> We've been getting a lot of false positives with the text "[SPAM]"
> prepended to the subject line.
> I just examined a bunch of legitimate messages that were falsely
> tagged, and all the ones
> I looked at had the rule "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX" as the biggest
> contributor to their spam scores.
>
> Further research turned up a thread about this rule, which apparently
> decides that any date
> past 2009-12-31 is "grossly in the future" and is therefore likely to be spam.
>
> I added a rule to spamassassin's local.cf to change the score for
> FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
> to 0.0, so it won't create any more false positives.
>
> Since a lot of current threads have the "[SPAM]" tag fossilized into
> their Subject lines,
> I also changed the tag in local.cf to "[**SPAM**]", to make it easier
> to track whether
> we still have an issue with false positives.
>
>
>
Ok, thanks.

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