[arachne] SpamAssassin flags Arachne mail as Spam!

Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

Hi all!

Some time ago, one of the people on my beta testers' list told me that
SpamAssassin, a popular anti-spam filter software, had apparently
marked one of my test releases as spam. More interesting than this fact,
however, was the attached list of the reasons why SpamAssassin thought
that my email was spam - see below.

The most spectacular of these, of course, is that 74% of the 5 points
needed for SpamAssassin to move the mail to the bit bucket are assigned
because the header that Arachne had created was regarded as typical of
bulk emailers. So basically, this means that either SpamAssassin has
Arachne on its black list or that email headers generated by Arachne
indeed bear a striking similarity to those generated by spam mailing
software. Whatever the reason, this definetely hurts the Arachne
community, either by mails written by Arachne users being deleted before
the recipient has a chance to read them, thereby making Arachne appear
as unreliable, or by making the Arachne users themselves appear as
spammers.

Regards,

Udo

----- Forwarded message begin -----
>Spam detection software, running on the system "xxxxx.xxxxxx.xx", has
>identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The original message
>has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
>similar future email.  If you have any questions, see
>the administrator of that system for details.
>
>Content preview:  -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project -
>  http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by user of The
>  Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ [...]
>
>Content analysis details:   (5.0 points, 5.0 required)
>
> pts rule name              description
>---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
> 3.7 HEADER_SPAM            Bulk email fingerprint (header-based) found
> 0.1 TO_EMPTY               To: is empty
> 1.8 FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS  From: starts with many numbers
> 0.0 UNPARSEABLE_RELAY      Informational: message has unparseable relay lines
>-0.7 BAYES_20               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20%
>                            [score: 0.0598]
> 0.1 TO_CC_NONE             No To: or Cc: header
>

------ Forwarded message end ------

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