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[Bug 5428] SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS triggers on "penny stock"

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Aug 27, 2008, 11:37 AM

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[Bug 5428] SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS triggers on "penny stock"

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Barry <mailinglists[at]pennysaverusa.net> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Barry <mailinglists[at]pennysaverusa.net> 2008-08-27 11:37:15 PST ---
I'm having problems with this rule... the name of my company starts with
"Penny", and our emails are matching this rule if the company name is in the
subject.

Can this rule be improved, perhaps as suggested last year (above)?

Thanks,
Barry

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Aug 27, 2008, 4:32 PM

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[Bug 5428] SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS triggers on "penny stock" [In reply to]

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--- Comment #2 from Sidney Markowitz <sidney[at]sidney.com> 2008-08-27 16:32:09 PST ---
I have added some test rules to my sandbox
T_SIDNEY_SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS0 same as SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS just to make sure
that the replace rules work in the sandbox

T_SIDNEY_SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS1 uses the suggestion from the bug description to
add a \b at the end

T_SIDNEY_SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS2 instead adds a test that the string does not
begin with "penny" or "pennies"

We'll see how they do on our corpus.

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Sep 7, 2008, 1:46 PM

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[Bug 5428] SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS triggers on "penny stock" [In reply to]

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Sidney Markowitz <sidney[at]sidney.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Sidney Markowitz <sidney[at]sidney.com> 2008-09-07 13:46:58 PST ---
The tests showed that modifying the rule by having it not match "penny" and
requiring it to end on a word boundary takes care of all the false positives
without adding any false negatives other than penny stock spam. Since this rule
should not be catching penny stock spam, I think that the overall result is an
improvement in accuracy.

I have checked in the change to trunk, 3.2, and 3.1 rules, as well as to the
3.2 and 3.1 update channels.

Revisions checked in:

692941 trunk rules
692942 3.2 rules
692943 3.2 update
692946 3.1 rules
692947 3.1 update

Not really relevant to this bug, but while looking at this I found that
FRT_PENIS, which is a similar body rule in the 3.2 update channel, already
makes sure that it doesn't match pennysaver and penny stock, but improved
accuracy by adding a word boundary, so I checked that in too.

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Sep 8, 2008, 2:22 AM

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[Bug 5428] SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS triggers on "penny stock" [In reply to]

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--- Comment #4 from Justin Mason <jm[at]jmason.org> 2008-09-08 02:22:38 PST ---
excellent!

can you push out a 3.2 update? (requires login on the zone.)
or do you want me to do it?

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Sep 8, 2008, 10:49 AM

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--- Comment #5 from Sidney Markowitz <sidney[at]sidney.com> 2008-09-08 10:49:51 PST ---
(in reply to comment #4)

I looked at the wiki article on how to update a channel, but I'm not clear on
where on zone to do what: The example looks like something done in a shell on
zone, but it puts the tar.gz file under /www which doesn't exist there. I also
didn't see a step for GPG signature. Isn't there a script that one would just
run on zone to do the whole thing?

You could push the update, but I would like to know how and to have the
experience of doing it, so I would prefer instructions sufficient to let me do
it. Then I could update the wiki and I can write scripts if they don't exist.

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Sep 12, 2008, 3:26 AM

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[Bug 5428] SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS triggers on "penny stock" [In reply to]

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Justin Mason <jm[at]jmason.org> changed:

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Target Milestone|Undefined |3.2.6

--- Comment #6 from Justin Mason <jm[at]jmason.org> 2008-09-12 03:26:03 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (in reply to comment #4)
>
> I looked at the wiki article on how to update a channel, but I'm not clear on
> where on zone to do what: The example looks like something done in a shell on
> zone, but it puts the tar.gz file under /www which doesn't exist there. I also
> didn't see a step for GPG signature. Isn't there a script that one would just
> run on zone to do the whole thing?
>
> You could push the update, but I would like to know how and to have the
> experience of doing it, so I would prefer instructions sufficient to let me do
> it. Then I could update the wiki and I can write scripts if they don't exist.

Sorry Sidney -- first my laptop got sick, then I did ;) I've been lagging
behind SpamAssassin work for the past week or so.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualRuleUpdates has the details. It's
very simple -- yep, there's a script! SImply log into your acct on the zone,
then run

sudo -u updatesd ./update-rules 3.2

that's it.

What was the other page you were looking at? It might be worth adding
a link to ManualRuleUpdates if that'd be appropriate.

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Sep 12, 2008, 1:22 PM

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[Bug 5428] SUBJECT_FUZZY_PENIS triggers on "penny stock" [In reply to]

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--- Comment #7 from Sidney Markowitz <sidney[at]sidney.com> 2008-09-12 13:22:33 PST ---
Ok, I pushed an update for both 3.1 and 3.2 with this, and I added a link in
PublishingRuleUpdates to ManualRuleUpdates

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