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Re: OT: Sneaky idea for Spamfiltering

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Mark Willis wrote:

> Idea:  If a message has "http://remove-list.com" in it, then it most
> likely is UCE SPAM, and can be spam-binned <VBEG>
> 
> 

Or the line about "this email conforms to proposed legilation..."

BTW, if anyone hasn't heard about abuse.net, let me tell ya about it:
If you try to reply to ISP of a spammer, you normally have to send mail to
root, postmaster, abuse, spam, etc, to make sure you have your bases
covered. But if you send mail to abuse.net in the form of ,
they automatically forward it to the appropriate addresses, based on a
database they try to keep up to date.
It doesn't hurt that they are free--and Eric Allman (who wrote sendmail)
recommended them to me personally... [yeah, I know, I dropped a name. Sue
me. 8-) ]

Paul Archer

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