Bug 5246 - Emails containing URL w/ .BIZ domain considered spam
Summary: Emails containing URL w/ .BIZ domain considered spam
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 major
Target Milestone: 3.2.0
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2006-12-15 13:03 UTC by Matthew
Modified: 2006-12-15 14:21 UTC (History)
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Description Matthew 2006-12-15 13:03:10 UTC 
SpamAssassin Developers...

I believe the BIZ_TLD and INFO_TLD rules need to be reevaluated.  By default, 
the BIZ_TLD rule assigns a score of 2.0.  This is quite a high score, 
especially since many legitimate business (like mine) operate under a .BIZ 
domain.  Perhaps in the past many spammers used BIZ and INFO domains, but 
today there are many organizations that legitimately use these domains for 
their operations.

I believe this rule needs a big adjustment.  Many of my company newsletters 
are being rejected by SpamAssassin protected servers simply because they 
contain a link to a .BIZ domain (www.mwmconsulting.biz).

Thoughts/suggestions/comments?

- Matthew
Comment 1 Theo Van Dinter 2006-12-15 13:11:37 UTC 
Hi,

The BIZ_TLD rule has already been removed from 3.2, I'm guessing due to low
hitrate (I can't find the commit log entry at the moment).  The INFO_TLD rule is
still in, though I think I'm going to pull it based on recent test results:

  3.798   4.5254   0.3313    0.932   0.65    0.00  INFO_TLD

I just pulled them from the 3.1 rule updates as well, so they'll be gone when
the next update is shipped.
Comment 2 Matthew 2006-12-15 14:21:58 UTC 
Thx for the quick response on this.  :)

- Matthew