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It is Akismet. Message moderation rules don't have any effect on conversations. Similarly, any behavior that would cause a message to be moderated in a thread will be blocked in places where there is no concept of moderation (conversations, signatures, etc).

Note that Akismet takes more into account than the message content. Things like IPs, user agent, referrers, email, URLs, etc are considered by it as well.