On Thursday, September 23, 1999, 21:17:08 PM +0200, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
composed profoundly about 'Anti-spam filters (was:Re[5]: List Administration Note)':
SL> Thursday, September 23, 1999, 10:49:59 AM, Thomas wrote:
>> Now, how do you actually set the filter to identify spam, i.e. make TB
>> tell it apart from legitimate mail?
SL> Spam basically has one constant, they are usually large BCC lists because
SL> spammers learned early on that people won't page through hundreds or thousands
SL> of addresses in the TO or CC fields to get to the actual advertisement. It
SL> quickly became a marker of spam. They want their advertisement front and
SL> center in the smallest package possible to get it in front of your eyeballs
SL> before you have a chance to delete it.
Steve,
This was true perhaps 6-8 months ago. I don't know what kind of spam you
are getting, but mine is addressed to me (well, 95 mails out of 100). I
think this is because their mailagents are getting updated and are capable
of addressing each mail individually. The most constant thing, appeared
lately in spam messages, is senders address with some erratic numbers, some-
thing like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And this is possible to filter
using procmail (I hope you, being *nix specialist, don't need further
instructions..).
Good luck !
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Composed in Kaunas, Lithuania on Thursday, September 23, 1999 22:23 +0200
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