Hello Steve Lee & everyone else, on 18-Mai-2005 at 14:53 you (Steve Lee) wrote:
> I get a number from users of this mailing list That may (partly) be because server side spam killers (SA for sure, don't know about others) still handle the X-Mailer: header entry "The Bat! (version_number)" as "FORGED_MUA" - especially if the header contains the version number of a beta version and the SA administration hasn't updated its ruleset, messages will get an increased spam rating because of this header. IMHO its a total waste of time and effort to include the MUA identification into a spam classification engine (let alone the embarrasment on the "victim" side of that practice). All the spam I get has a perfectly valid X-Mailer: header which contains Outlook Express or some other crap & a valid version number. -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) There is virtually nothing that has come from molecular biology that can be of any value to human living in the conventional sense of what is good, and quite tremendous possibilities of evil... -- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
