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- This general-purpose definition is designed to catch a
- wide range of spam, with particular emphasis on:
-
- * Sexual content and penile enlargement ads
- * Pharmacy and bogus health cures
- * General unwanted commercial "services"
- * Spam tools
- * 419 scams (the "Nigerian funds transfer" scam)
-
- This ruleset aggressively filters messages containing
- Lazy HTML (HTML with references to remote graphics): if
- you receive a lot of legitimate mail containing Lazy
- HTML, you will either need to whitelist the sources of
- that mail, or else remove the test.
-
- This rulest also regards any message containing more
- than 25% non-ASCII characters as spam, so if you receive
- a lot of legitimate mail of this type you will need to
- take steps to deal with that.
-
- We recommend that you do not directly modify this rule
- set, because subsequent versions of Mercury will usually
- attempt to update it. Instead, create a copy of this set
- and work on the copy, disabling this one.
-
- This rule set is a standard part of the Mercury/32
- distribution and is updated from time to time: you can
- find updated rule sets on our web site, at -
-
- http://www.pmail.com/patches.htm
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