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>At 10:00 AM 3/15/2005, Mike Spamassassin wrote:
>>I have just received spam from <Esmeralda Bouchard> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Is there a test which identifies that the description (Esmeralada
>>Bouchard) bears no resemblance to the given sender's address?
>
>No.. It's quite common for normal people to have that.
>
>For example, take a look at Theo Van Dinter's email address. The only
>letters in common between his name and his email username are t,i, and e.
>(The username part is "felicity", and the domain has no resemblance to his
>name either.. "kludge")
>
>And what about Paul Shupak, who uses "List Mail User" as a description, and
>"track" as a username?
>
>Or these other combinations from this mailing lists (domains removed to
>reduce harvesting problems)
>
>"Ben Wylie" sasssin@
> "Kai Schaetzl" maillists@
>"Matt Yackley" sare@
>"Matthias Keller" linux@
>
Actually some organizations do filter on things like this, at
times I "CC:" people at Microsoft from the hostmaster@ account here; It
identifies itself as "Administrative Account", which cause the internal
MS classifier to always mark it as "BULK". Several friends have complained
to me about it -- MS does seem to pass "List Mail User" through untouched.
Other accounts which I commonly use have ever "worse" identifiers (Once,
they all said "Paul Shupak", but them I cam across some spamware which
cross references the descriptions to tie accounts together, so they were
mostly changed to reflect what the account is used for). BTW, several
people on this list (but amazingly no others) have privately complained
about the "ugly" descriptions my accounts use (you know who you are).
Paul Shupak
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. I would guess that "track@" is identical in use to Kai
Schaetzl's maillists@
