Matt, Thank you so much, thats exactly the info I was looking for. Don't worry, I'll keep the address secured :)
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Oehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [Razor-users] forwarding spam to a troll email address > It sounds like you need a brief intro to how razor works, and what it does. > > Razor is a message body check system. It tracks messages, not users, not > servers, not from's, to's or anything of the sort. Basically the principle > behind razor is that most spams are sent to millions of people.. once one > gets it, and reports it, it will be razored by anyone else getting it later. > > So in effect Razor doesn't tag email addresses at ALL. In fact, Razor > ignores ALL message headers. So Razor will never tag "you" or "your > mailserver" as a spammer. Period.. it's not something that Razor does in > the first place. > > > Razor only checksums the message bodies, so if the body is 100% unmodified > (ie: you haven't added any kind of "forwarded from" type stuff to the body) > using a mail forward to submit to razor is fine, provided nobody else > figures out the address and starts stuffing it with nonspam on purpose to > drive down your razor trust rating :) > > > > > > At 08:49 PM 10/4/2002 -0400, Paul Oehler wrote: > >I can't imagine that this question hasn't been asked and answered, but for > >the life of me I couldn't find the answer in the mailing list archives or > >in the documentation. > > > >I would like to set up an auto-spam reporting e-mail address, for only me > >to use, to easily report spam to razor, by forwarding the spam message to > >the e-mail address. My concern is, will razor see the e-mail forward > >coming from my e-mail account, and therefore tag me as a spammer? Or, > >does razor ignore "forward" headers, and only look at the spam > >content? Do I need to strip off the forward headers before the spam gets > >reported? > > > >Any help is greatly appreciated, > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
