[spambayes-dev] 1070 spam, 1 false positive

[Greg Ward]

On 24 June 2003, Tim Peters said:
> > Seems like a good idea to me, since junk mail often has
> > non-RFC-conformant date headers.
> 
> basic_header_tokenize doesn't know anything about RFC compliance, it treats
> all header lines exactly the same way (as sequences of meaningless
> characters).

I should have been more explicit.  Tokens like "June" or
"Canada/Eastern" in the "Date:" header are probably good spam
indicators, since they would never appear in a correct "Date:" header --
they should be "Jun" or "-0500".

        Greg
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