On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:25:18 -0500 John Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Use of the word "unsubscribe" - the inclusion of an email address in the
> body of a message and other such things that we accept in use on the
> list will get a reasonably high "spam" score from things like
> SPAMASSASSIN.
> 
> I have the same problem with emails I send to an e-zine list
> (participants have to re opt-in every three months!) seems that
> SPAMANOIA has taken over and much legitimate, even requested, email is
> being filtered out.

In this case, unsubscribe in the subject, not the body, triggers a message
to the individual which should help him unsubscribe without annoying the
rest of us with the clueless request.  It's not a spam filter, just a
filter rule that was added after we got about a dozen similar requests in a
week.  It was *slightly* humorous to see the fifth or so 'reply-to-all'
with all the unsubscribe instructions in the quoted text.

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