Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
>Something I have noted is that most commercial spam is html usually with words
>like investment, Viagra, sex et in the heading.
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I used to get that kind of crap too. Until I discovered that Mozilla
would allow me to write filters based on other parts of the headers,
like X_Mailer: or the domain. :-)
Almost every piece of spam that I have ever received had these lines in
the headers:
X-Mailer:Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
X-Virus-Scanned:Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine
So I filter everything with Outhouse Excess in the XMailer line to the
trash now. I sent MS an email asking if it was some federal requirement
that spammers *have* to use OE, or if using OE created this
uncontrollable urge to start sending spam. ;-)
And a modification of that same filter picks out the *LUG posts that
are sent from yahoo accounts, and dumps the rest of them. Because other
than the few LUG users that post from yahoo, all of the email that I
have gotten from yahoo has been spam. So far it has been working very
nicely.
Jeff
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