[antispam-f] Re: Rule hitting 50% of spam

  • From: Harriet Bazley <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:27:47 GMT

On 6 Nov 2006 as I do recall,
          Dave Barnett wrote:

> Observing that an e-mail with a 'Subject:' starting with 'Re:' would 
> normally be expected to be replying to something, and that a spam
> would not be replying to anything, a double rule:
> 
> Defer Subject: = Re: *
> And References: -
> 
> detects this.  A 'References:' header should be included in replies.  
> I am not yet sure how 'cc' and 'bcc' messages are affected.

Some (apparently common) PC programs don't include References: headers.
<sigh>

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H. Bazley

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