Bug 6974 - excessive exclamation points !!! not being triggered
Summary: excessive exclamation points !!! not being triggered
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Undefined
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2013-09-19 14:11 UTC by Joe
Modified: 2018-02-03 19:29 UTC (History)
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Description Joe 2013-09-19 14:11:31 UTC 
It appears that excessive exclamation points !!!! is no longer being triggered.  It used to be but as of a few weeks now, it isnt.
Comment 1 Giovanni Bechis 2018-02-03 11:30:42 UTC 
This should be a rule that has been disabled in the past years.
Comment 2 Bill Cole 2018-02-03 19:29:22 UTC 
Not a bug. No rule that matches a string of exclamation marks is in the current default ruleset or any testing sandbox. If there was such a rule in mid-2013, we would need a specific rule name to determine when and why it was removed. The most likely reason would be that it was a low-performing rule which did more harm than good. The nightly rule QA process identifies such problematic rules and disables them. 

If one wants such a rule, one can added it one's local.cf (or user_prefs, if enabled.)