[ale] OT : SpamAssassin becoming inefective

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 13:36, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> That's actually the version (2.63) that I'm using.  My setup is pretty 
> much an out of the box setup (I've added some blacklist / whitelists, 
> and just recently cranked the required score down to 4.7).  The weird 
> thing is, everything was working great until about 2 weeks ago (the VAST 
> majority of spam was getting caught).  Now, the ones that are making it 
> through are scoring really low, around 1 or 2 points.
> 
Misspellings and extra spaces and punctuation are killing it. I have
been seeing the same thing. Stuff like:

\/,ia G:rA  

n  a  k  e  d  

seem to throw it off completely.
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