Nick Hill saw fit to inform LI that: 

>this is another one. I've never got any spam in this box, as Yahoo filters that
>for me.

Yahoo has _atrocious_ filters, which extensively mangle your mail.

Let's go through the headers ...

>
>----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----
>
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:36:39 +0530
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web1301.mail.yahoo.com
>X-Track: 65: 40

X-Track is a header inserted by Yahoo for spam filtering

>Mess51: 0��@nikhilwiz w�5ww.aunet.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>       by www.aunet.org (Postfix) with SMTP
>Nikhil>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this makes it look authentic.

It is authentic, but wtf are those high ascii characters in the headers?
8bit is _not_ allowed in mail headers.

>
>x�Received: from hotmail.com (PPP-174-100.bng.vsnl.net.in [203.197.174.100])
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ b'lore?

Yes.  Bangalore VSNL - a legit post I think.

Looks like yahoo's spamfiltering is badly broken.  And yahoo's mta is
broken as well, if it mixes two mails together _AND_ inserts high ASCII
into headers.

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
Never commit yourself!  Let someone else commit you.

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