[Python-Dev] New Pythondoc by effbot

[Tim Peters]

[Aahz]
>> Aside to Georg: your messages are all getting /dev/null'd because you use
>> "spam" in your From: line.  I get too much spam to change that, and I'll
>> bet other people use that heuristic.  Please change your From: line for
>> this mailing list.

[Georg Brandl]
> I don't quite understand that. Why would a spam email have "spam" in
> the From?

In general it wouldn't.  Aahz didn't tell us everything, or he's
simply not making sense.

Because I still like ;-) the SpamBayes project, I don't do anything to
try to stop receiving spam, and have several email addresses that have
been visible for years.  Of the 4456 spam I received via Outlook in
the last 30 days, onlly 3 had "spam" in the From header:

From: alison at charlotte.dontspam.wsrcc.com
From: ".Φ.αΦδ .α±ΩεΓ" <moskowspam at BonBon.net>
From: spam <hasting at krause-taylor.com>

It was much more common among ham, including email from you, from the
spambayes mailing lists, from SORBS, ....  If:

    The `From:` header contains "spam" as a substring, case-insensitively.

were a feature SpamBayes scored, it would be a strong ham clue in my
training database.

> For me, the "-nospam" suffix works relatively good to avoid spam, as most
> harvesting programs will think this is a false address.
>
> Of course, that may be more useful in Usenet, not in mailing lists.

It's OK by me if you keep using it.