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thomas.kinghorn at gmail

Feb 2, 2012, 3:29 AM

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explanation of rule

Good afternoon List.

Could anyone elaborate on the following rule.
I have tried searching for an explanation, without success.

TVD_SPACE_RATIO_MINFP

Thanks in advance
Tom


jhardin at impsec

Feb 2, 2012, 8:44 AM

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Re: explanation of rule [In reply to]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Tom Kinghorn wrote:

> Good afternoon List.
>
> Could anyone elaborate on the following rule.
> I have tried searching for an explanation, without success.
>
> TVD_SPACE_RATIO_MINFP

The base __TVD_SPACE_RATIO calls an eval:

eval:tvd_vertical_words('0','10')

It looks like it's checking for a text-to-space ratio that would indicate
vertical-words obfuscation to avoid text matching.

The _MINFP variant was my adding some FP avoidance rules (different ones
than in the TVD_SPACE_RATIO rule) to try to improve the performance of the
base rule.

http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?rule=%2FTVD_SPACE_RATIO

The _MINFP version is apparently performing better, and should probably
replace the base TVD_SPACE_RATIO rule.

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thomas.kinghorn at gmail

Feb 2, 2012, 10:29 PM

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Re: explanation of rule [In reply to]

On 02/02/2012 18:44, John Hardin wrote:
>
>
> The _MINFP version is apparently performing better, and should
> probably replace the base TVD_SPACE_RATIO rule.
>
Ah, now it makes sense.

Thank you for the explanation.

regards
Tom

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