[antispam-f] Re: Recent Spam
- From: Harriet Bazley <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:02:45 GMT
On 29 Nov 2007 as I do recall,
Jeremy Nicoll - freelists wrote:
> Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'll add this to my file. As Jeremy Nicoll, in message
> > <gemini.js8j1l00300ho00ds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, points out,
> > there are risks with this test,
>
> ...yes
>
> > especially if you have correspondence from ex-colonial countries located
> > West of time zone +0500.
(-0500)
>
> What? How can that be related to the format of an email address?
I think he's referring to the United States of America....
[snip]
> > The combination should be as foolproof as anything is when dealing with
> > spam. I'll start, as usual, with a Header trial.
>
> There's no doubt it will delete things, but that's not a reliable test of
> whether it deletes the right things. It may delete lots of garbage, but
> then also delete genuine mail to you. How would you know?
>
Unless he has a great many American correspondents in the habit of
sending e-mail to one another and BCCing him in on the exchange, he
should be safe enough under the circumstances he describes. For what
it's worth, after checking my current logs, the only legitimate e-mail I
have on record from such a poster consists of mailing list traffic from
one "David J. Ruck". :-)
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Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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