[Gllug] Killing capitalised spam from the list

[David Damerell]

On , 24 Jun 2002, Nix wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Adrian McMenamin uttered the following:
>> On Monday 24 Jun 2002 6:31 pm, FRANK UBU wrote:
>>>     DELOTTO NETHERLANDS SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY,
>>>                   BURDENSTRAAT 21B,
>> And other such spam rubbish... is it possible to have a /. like lameness 
>> filter that blasts posts with too many caps?
>SpamAssassin is tagging posts to the list[1], using substantially more
>complex rules than `too many caps' (although that's one of them).

Spam Assassin doesn't score _lots_ of caps as highly as one or two
lines, though, because maybe your aged parents just can't be persuaded
not to, but they'll turn out paragraphs in all caps rather than "RED
HOT HENS WAITING FOR YOUR COCK" one-liners.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?


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