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Roy Badami writes: > One other comment: a rule for this should have a near-zero > false-positive rate. > > The punctuation in the tag (particularly the hyphen) is deliberate, to > prevent it matching ordinary English language text, and since it has > to occur at the beginning of the subject, 'Re:' and 'Fwd:' tags and > the like would prevent a rule from matching. > > I'm rather pleasantly surprized that the FTC has (purposefully, it > appears) come up with a label that is designed to be useful to spam > filters... However, they were mandated to by Congress, and pretty much said outright beforehand that they reckoned it would be pointless ;) Lets see if spammers use it. Several states (if I recall correctly) already mandate the use of the subject tag "ADV:ADLT". when was the last time you saw that? My guess is that they won't bother, since they're already flouting CAN-SPAM anyway. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFAhZLcQTcbUG5Y7woRAkmRAJ9O6ms0XXiBMj/6fCc5NGgmGDUimQCfYcXA bkxrpg0IvzuUaR/9nQvxSSQ= =Y/pQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
