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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Kris Deugau <kd...@vianet.ca> on 2004/11/04 23:29:50 UTC

Ah, the irony. [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken.]

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This is why you don't blindly filter for spam based on single, simple
criteria...  (Or filter a subscribers-only mailing list.)

(No doubt cause by my reply to Lisa Casey, in which I quoted certain
words she was considering using to reject mail.)

-kgd
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Get your mouse off of there!  You don't know where that email has been!

Re: Ah, the irony. [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken.]

Posted by Bob Proulx <bo...@proulx.com>.
Kris Deugau wrote:
> This is why you don't blindly filter for spam based on single, simple
> criteria...  (Or filter a subscribers-only mailing list.)

And even worse is the backscatter that is caused by filters such as
that which bounce mail to likely forged from address.  My mailbox is
continuously attacked by those.

> Get your mouse off of there!  You don't know where that email has been!

Nice.

Bob