Looks like someone beat us to it!
Evan II
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Hello E.,
This message has been automatically generated by our system in response to your message to us. No human has seen your message.
It appears that a message you sent to our company (see below) has been flagged by our automated system as an e-mail hoax.
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Best regards,
IS Dept Minuteman UPS
Thursday, May 20, 2004, 2:36:43 PM, you wrote:
EF> The problem with a ruleset is that hoaxes are *NOT* UCE. They are not EF> commercial, arguably not even unsolicited. These are messages from EF> people known to the recipient.
EF> Even if you are not running any sort of auto-learning system, do you EF> want your users to see mail from people they know marked as spam?
EF> Arguably, the jdbgmgr.exe hoax could be considered viral (like one of EF> those honour-system viruses that can affect *nix and Mac systems), and EF> could be handled by a virus scanner - but not a spam scanner.
EF> These e-mails are at best annoying, at worst very harmful - but they are
EF> not spam, and should not be included in standard spam rulesets.
