I'd say it's my most effective one to date. It precedes all of my other checkers including tests to see if the poster is a subscriber. There have been only 3 or 4 people caught in it (g.money is one) and the fix is easy for a human being. For an auto-spam bot it's a killer.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just had it set as CF-COMM instead of CF-COMMUNITY. That must be > one heck of a spam filter. > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Michael Dinowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sure. > > Sorry that you got caught in my trap. I thought I had mentioned it to you > in > > a previous email, but I guess not. The issue is that spam can come in > under > > a subscribers email address and look like a real subscribers post. The > > solution is to know how spam thinks. Many times a spam email will use a > > random 'name' along with a target email address. This can result in a > 'name' > > of bob dobbs and an email of [EMAIL PROTECTED] By making sure that any > name > > portion of a TO address is the same as the email portion, I can block > even > > more spam while rarely blocking real messages. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276585 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
