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

[michael]

You're right my ISP tags the subject as SPAM and upon looking closer there
is a better way. It seems there's always a better way.  


At 03:05 PM 6/17/04 -0400, you wrote:
>
>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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