[Gllug] It's August so what about a willy-waving contest (SpamAssassin)?

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, John Winters wrote:

> For those of you who run SpamAssassin, what's the highest score you've
> achieved on an item of incoming mail?  A quick "grep | sort" throws up
> my best entry as 44.3.

Anything over 15 I send to /dev/null so I don't know the answer to this 
one.
 
> As a subsidiary contest, what's the highest you've had on a message
> which turned out to be non-Spam?  My highest (and indeed, only instance
> of a false positive) was scored by BT with their e-billing notification
> scoring 5.3.

I cannot quite match that however EasyJet's standard confirmation email 
for flight bookings gets this:

X-Spam-Report:
        *  3.5 MARKETING_PARTNERS BODY: Claims you registered with a 
partner
        *  1.2 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY BODY: Multipart message mostly text/html 
MIME
        *  0.1 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML
        *  0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
        *  0.1 HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE BODY: HTML link text says "click here"
        *  0.1 CLICK_BELOW Asks you to click below
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.1 required=5.0 tests=CLICK_BELOW,HTML_50_60,
        
HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE,HTML_MESSAGE,MARKETING_PARTNERS,MIME_HTML_MOSTLY
        autolearn=no version=2.61
X-Spam-Level: *****

Jason Clifford
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