David S. Madole wrote:

>> I did consider that. The headers on their own don't seem to 
>> be a free pass, but they do help. Otherwise any old spammer 
>> could spam all the hotmail addresses they wanted.
> 
> Except that it's expensive for spammers to send large messages because they 
> are sending millions. Every extra byte is multiplied by a large factor.
> 
> Likewise, it's not at all unusual for SpamAssassin installations to bypass 
> scanning for messages over some certain size because scanning is expensive, 
> so Hotmail is not nearly unique in this.

I was directly referencing the concept of adding fake In-Reply-To and 
Reference headers here, not the addition of the "fodder" headers, 
otherwise you'd be correct.

Mike

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