[Novalug] bug in SpamAssassin

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Rich Goodwin wrote:

> Many maybe aware - but just in case you aren't - there's a bug in
> SpamAssassin:
>
> http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.golem.de/1001/72142.html&sl=de&tl=en
>
> Translated from German.  Seems part of the SA algorithm ups the score on
> emails sent in 2010 rendering false positives.  Check your spam folder
> if you use SA.  And keep an eye out for patches/updates to SA ...
>
> Happy New Year!!
Thanks for that info.

I think this was the case in the QIS.net spam filter as a lot of 
legit messages in my inbox Jan 1 and  Jan 2 were flagged as spam. However 
it seems resolved now.

  >
> Rich
>
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