OSS, Sp*m and... most regrettably politics

Marcus Brubaker marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 17 19:05:26 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:37, Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:28:22PM -0400, Tim Writer wrote:
> > michael <michael-SDkNi8KRJFiw5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> writes:
> > 
> > > I found this in my spam trash can.  My ISP tags spam with the word spam and
> > > I have anything with the subject line containing with word SPAM automaticly
> > > tossed into it.  Maybe this group is just non-political or others have the
> > > same mechanism setup.  
> > 
> > That's ridiculous.  While I've _occasionally_ received SPAM identifying
> > itself as (unsolicited) commercial e-mail, I've never received SPAM that
> > identified itself as SPAM, certainly not using the word SPAM.  When present
> > in e-mail, I would think that the word SPAM is much more likely an indicator
> > of a legitimate discussion about dealing with SPAM than an indicator of SPAM.
> 
> I think what he means is that when his ISP finds e-mail that it suspects might
> be spam, his ISP _rewrites_ the subject header such that it includes the word
> "Spam".  Personally, I'd make it do something a little more obvious, and probably
> all uppercase like "SPAM", and make sure that my e-mail client was being case-
> sensitive.
> 
> Of course the probably better solution is to add a new header (a la SpamAssassin)
> which the mail client can look for without touching the Subject header.

Most spam scanners that I've seen do add an extra message header and,
optionally, modify the subject line.  I would suggest that he looks at
the headers to see if there is a more accurate way to filter according
to his ISPs spam software.

Regards,
-- 
Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>

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