Just wanted everyone to know something about Spam and SpamReview.
As you may already know, I get spam and I use SpamReview to help
gather addresses before I verify them and add them to the kill file.
I think it's a valuable application, however, I still have to add
allot of addresses manually. You see, spammers are slick and it may
seem as though these messages are coming from yahoo or hotmail,
however, they are not. They are coming from different systems
with open relays or mass-mailing servers, and this poses a problem.
Spamreview and programs alike do not see all of these addresses, so
they can not automatically write them to your kill file. You have
to look at the headers to figure it out. Sometimes that's not even
easy since the headers can be forged so well, you wouldn't be able to
figure out what or where it came from. Take a look at the
following very short header example:
----------------------------------------------------------------
From: xxybr.cn.br.ub
Received: from jock.fake.me.net.br
Received: from hitchcock.mail.mindspring.net
Received: from mailft-ne2.fiestatwist.net ([64.191.23.52])
by payne.mail.mindspring.net
Received: by mailft-ne2.fiestatwist.net
(envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Received: from mail12-41 (10.134.122.151) by 10.0.0.2
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Fiesta Twist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
----------------------------------------------------------------
In some cases, not necessarily this one, SpamReview will use mindspring
or the reply address where as Declude will say it's from a different
address. You see the dilemma, I would go after all of them, something's
gota eventually byte. Anyway, the purpose of this e-mail was to inform
you of a small problem with using an application such as Spamreview.
You shouldn't just add every address you see in SpamReview you may
need to look further into the message headers to find the correct
address.
Good Luck,
Tom
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