A little request about spam
Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan at pauahtun.org
Thu Apr 14 11:06:08 EDT 2005
Hi All--
Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>
> # ivanlan at pauahtun.org / 2005-04-14 08:22:48 -0600:
> > The listowner could turn on the [PYTHON] headers.
>
> I hope they don't.
>
What's your reasoning?
> > I'm not using spambayes yet, although I'm leaning toward it, but that
> > step alone could save me some work when trying to decide based on
> > subject line alone whether or not an email is spam. As it stands now,
> > it's too easy to decide incorrectly that "Subject: Inelegant" is a
> > spamdunk.
>
> Don't base your decisions (only) on subject then. Oh, and spam sent
> through the list would have the [PYTHON] space eater too, so what
> would it buy you?
>
Of course I wouldn't base decisions _only_ on whether or not [PYTHON]
appears in the subject. But I ordinarily do base decisions on the whole
subject line, and I think that's perfectly reasonable. There's nothing
else to go on without opening the message, and for HTML-based mail
there's no surer way to let spammers know they've found a live email
addres than to open it. You know that.
Metta,
Ivan
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