Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-spamassassin-users-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-spamassassin-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68CD376A2 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:05:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 82441 invoked by uid 500); 27 Nov 2011 23:05:45 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-spamassassin-users-archive@spamassassin.apache.org Received: (qmail 82414 invoked by uid 500); 27 Nov 2011 23:05:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@spamassassin.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list users@spamassassin.apache.org Received: (qmail 82407 invoked by uid 99); 27 Nov 2011 23:05:45 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:05:45 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of m@khonji.org designates 209.85.213.178 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.213.178] (HELO mail-yx0-f178.google.com) (209.85.213.178) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:05:39 +0000 Received: by yenm9 with SMTP id m9so5356465yen.37 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.113.38 with SMTP id iv6mr3739820obb.51.1322435118399; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.0.107] (ner-as28711.alshamil.net.ae. [86.96.50.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t9sm7985306obe.7.2011.11.27.15.05.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED2C228.7060903@khonji.org> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:05:12 +0400 From: Mahmoud Khonji User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Question for experts.... References: <4ED2AB13.2020400@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <4ED2AB13.2020400@earthlink.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2011 01:26 AM, jdow wrote: > Which browser(s) treat addresses of the form > 178.000235.0000150.000372 as actual addresses? That seems like a > serious fault in the browsers. > > {^_^} adding to that: dotted hex IPv4 0x12.0xab.0xcd.0xef. single hex number 0x12abcdef, or a single decimal number. these used to work on Firefox 3.x (at least - may be they changed it in more recent releases). but i don't think that it is a serious fault. a simple pattern match will detect it. i personally like rare IPv4 URLs as considering an email with rare IPv4 URLs as spam results in 0% false positives :). while considering a dotted decimal IPv4 as spam results in 3-4% false positives. (stats from my data set). - -- Regards, Mahmoud Khonji PGP Key: 0x92584ECA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO0sIoAAoJEFzU5FSSWE7KYm4H/3uwAHUA109aQRLBqI6/00Jh AuF7GBoGRtVg7u5f3kWg72Bxy0BuU9COoWuJyUIiNrtKxKVrT8FWSRrq51NAux8q 4a9LUgKacPDLLKxj5UHDHH6cq7wuMZFNEhtlL5y8SQTEXyoLdkwn6T5Pbqs7Gifk LeFQPPF/9zM3GVUQ/Y59Rv4RC5ysXCRNu8gcszPanN9GeutGUPNAS8PQzXJhiJLR lxcxojDAO+sfWgebRFosvX+0Sx5geVMYOZw5nBNY3aa2gqA1HeXhUpyeN62rO6Sl U5N6P1wmJXttrrdDLDAI2o8KJxxyJvHXHIZMdF3u5dW5em0/6feXBCBHuYUiIzQ= =Lk4z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----