[AC web] Describe tighter spam filters

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

APPROVE COMMIT web

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+2006-12-27  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen at xemacs.org>
+
+	* index.content: Update spam policy statement (we're members-only
+	now) and instant death and hold policies (add COMPLEXBODY).
+	Reviewed for post-disk-crash correctness, added note that
+	xemacs-winnt is now directed to xemacs-beta.
+

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@@ -426,6 +426,20 @@
         </dl>
       </td>
     </tr>
+    <tr valign="top">
+      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
+        <p><strong>xemacs-winnt</strong> has been merged into
+	  xemacs-beta, as the Windows support is now a standard part
+	  of XEmacs.</p>
+      </td>
+      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">
+        <dl>
+          <!-- one of (dd dt) -->
+          <dt><a id="xemacs-nt" name="xemacs-nt">Legacy Archive</a>:</dt>
+          <dd><a href="http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-nt/">http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-nt/</a></dd>
+        </dl>
+      </td>
+    </tr>
   </table>
 
   <h2><a id="subscribing" name="subscribing">How To Subscribe</a></h2>
@@ -509,13 +523,9 @@
   </p>
 
   <p>
-    Currently the XEmacs mailing lists are operated as open-post
-    lists.  That is, you don't need to be a member to post to them.
-    While members-only-post is a somewhat effective policy in reducing
-    spam, it doesn't eliminate it, and it would require substantially
-    more effort from the list administrators, because we do want to
-    reply to all legitimate posters, at least to tell them how to
-    post.  Autoresponders cannot be used because they generate huge
+    Currently the XEmacs mailing lists are operated as members-only-post
+    lists.  Other posts are moderated, first by automatic filters, then
+    by humans.  Autoresponders cannot be used because they generate huge
     number of bounces due to non-existent addresses at poorly
     configured hosts, driving the postmaster crazy.  Instead, with a
     mixture of <a href="http://spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</a> and
@@ -525,13 +535,17 @@
 
   <p>
     Due to a dramatic increase in the amount of spam and a near
-    perfect record of like 0.05% false positives, we are discarding
-    near-certain spam without checking as of 2004-04-27.  We have
-    added more categories as recently as 2005-10-07.  Here are the
-    criteria, any of which qualifies your post for automatic discard:
+    perfect record of like 0.05% false positives, we are <em>discarding
+    near-certain spam</em> without checking as of 2004-04-27.  We have
+    added more categories as recently as <strong>2006-12-26</strong>.
+    Here are the criteria, any of which qualifies your post for automatic
+    discard:
   </p>
 
   <ol>
+    <li>Send a message which is of MIME type "multipart/alternative"
+      or "multipart/related", containing both a "text/html" type part
+      and an "image/*" type part.</li>
     <li>Have a known abusive from address (eg, daemon addresses at
       Microsoft.com, used by the MS-Blaster/Nachi viruses)</li>
     <li>Send posts with unencoded 8-bit characters in the headers</li>
@@ -604,6 +618,8 @@
   </p>
 
   <ol>
+    <li>A message which is of MIME type "multipart/alternative"
+      or "multipart/related", containing an "image/*" type part.</li>
     <li>
       Broken headers, including addresses or message IDs apparently
       munged or added by relays.