On Wednesday 28 November 2001 23:13 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:21:04 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:27 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > > Here's a good question. I see a lot of postings about ways of > > > eliminating spam. How does one differentiate between spam and > > > > really > > > > > interesting new mail that doesn't happen to come from your known > > > > and > > > > > most frequent correspondents? > > > > One basic fact that I use is that: if the email isn't addressed > > specifically to my email address(es), then I consider it spam unless > > qualified some other way... (such as list mail) > > > > It's doubtful that any friend would send you email addressed to > > 'undisclosed > > recipients' or some other bogus address. > > All the spam I get is addressed to my email address. How would I get > mail that isn't addressed to me?
I'm referring to the To: field. Here's what the list sent to me: From: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yet it gets here probably by the X-RCPT-TO or some other field in the header. I wrote a program to scan headers against a spam list: for the To: field for the From: field for ANY field The list is pretty simple but the program isn't. For instance, I toss all mail coming from .kr, .tw, etc and even if someone addresses specifically to me, I can TWIT them based on either the FROM field or the ANY catchall. Works quite well. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 11/28/01 23:22 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "I get enough exercise just pushing my luck." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
