On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Vince LaMonica wrote:

> That is correct. Any good junk/spam filtering software ignores the from 
> address, as there is nothing in that field that is useful for accurate 
> spam filtering. In fact, any software that *does* use that address will 
> actually increase the amount of false positives since many spammers use 
> your own address

I understand why one would not want a filter to automatically blacklist sender 
addresses, but that's no reason why it should not be willing to manually 
blacklist them.  Heaven knows, I get enough repetitive crap from Song Lile, 
Robert Mueller, Ban Ki-Moon, and Western Union, and Mail diagnoses only a 
fraction of these.

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