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SpamAssassin Rule Emporium (SARE) Finally I find a site that helps me with my own SpamAssassin rules. I have created the rules below. I have the spam level set to 3.0 on my ClarkConnect box at home which seems pretty accurate. I have it set to 7.0 on the mail server at icdsoft.com.

Of course, my regular expreessions knowledge is woeful, but with Max’s help I have refined the rules a bit. I am getting very high accuracy now, though one did slip through today that was pure HTML and about “reducing debt”. I feel another rule coming on…



header   OldManse_Dodgy_From1 From =~ /@email.com/i

describe OldManse_Dodgy_From1 email.com is dodgy.

score    OldManse_Dodgy_From1 0.9


body     OldManse_Priice /priice/i

describe OldManse_Priice Priice? Only spammers spell it like that...

score    OldManse_Priice 2.0


body     OldManse_Meds1 /meds/i

describe OldManse_Meds1 Meds?  Not a UK word.

score    OldManse_Meds1 2.0


body     OldManse_Meds2 /medication/i

describe OldManse_Meds2 Medication?  Are you sure?

score    OldManse_Meds2 1.0


body     OldManse_Meds3 /drugs/i

describe OldManse_Meds3 drugs?  Are you sure?

score    OldManse_Meds3 0.5


body     OldManse_Meds4 /viagra|vicodin/i

describe OldManse_Meds4 Viagra or Vicodin - might be in a joke.

score    OldManse_Meds4 0.5


body     OldManse_Meds5 /v\.?(.\.|[^i])a\.?g\.?r\.?a/i

describe OldManse_Meds5 Disguised Viagra.!

score    OldManse_Meds5 5.0


body     OldManse_Meds6 /v\.?(.\.|[^i])\.?c\.?o\.?d\.?i\.?n/i

describe OldManse_Meds6 Disguised Vicodin.

score    OldManse_Meds6 5.0


body     OldManse_Purchase1 /p\.u\.r\.c\.h\.a\.s\.e/i

describe OldManse_Purchase1 p.u.r.c.h.a.s.e?  Yeah, right.

score    OldManse_Purchase1 2.0


body     OldManse_Savings1 /s\.aving\.s/i

describe OldManse_Savings1 s.aving.s?  Yeah, right.

score    OldManse_Savings1 2.0


score	RCVD_IN_SORBS	1.0

score	RCVD_IN_RFCI	1.0


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General

Found out on Wednesday that the planning permission that our neighbours had rejected in 2000 was actually approved on appeal to the secretary of state. Now (Thursday evening) the building in their back garden has already gone – to be replaced by two houses.

We are philosophical about this, but it would be nice to have known about this in 2001 – especially as the council said that they would inform us.

The weird thing about their back lot with no building is this increase in noise and the improvement in the view. We can see the church from our garden now, but I suspect this view will not remain after the houses go up.

So, we aim to get the windows facing our garden put in to frosted glass. We also aim to get the new window that they propose removed or made frosted glass. Our neighbours will change from a gym/office to four houses. Is that bad or good? Not really sure yet, but you cannot stop progress.

General

Feeling deeply grumpy today. We’d booked Sky to install Sky+ in a shameless move to enhance Murdoch’s millions. The installer came, walked around on the roof with cat-like agility and couldn’t get near our dish. It is in a very awkward place – I have no idea how the guys who put it up got up there – I guess it is a two man job. Anyway. Murdoch loses some money, and we revert to plan A – keeping the status quo. Annoyingly we had a crane up to that very chimney two weeks ago to install the chimney lining. Bah humbug. No live TV pausing for me then. I had thought that even if you cannot get up to the dish I would get the Sky+ box, but apparently it needs TWO aerial leads in to it.

The only way I can think to get near the dish properly is to get a “proper” scaffolder to tower up, but that seems overkill. At least it would protect the tiles. Either that or I wait until Sky come up witha hard disk recording box that only neads one lead in – surely you can split a satellite aerial signal in this day and age?