[Esd-l] Removal of HTML comments

[John D. Hardin]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Brett Glass wrote:

> John, have you considered adding removal of HTML comments to the
> filter?  Many spammers throw HTML comments into the middle of
> words to thwart spam detection schemes, and filters such as yours
> might be a good way to get them out, along with the scripts. (I
> already do this in my own filter.)

Yeah, I've thought about it. I agree it would be a good anti-spam
tool. However, I've resisted putting anti-spam features into the
sanitizer before and I'm going to continue to do so.

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