Re: CAN-SPAM and pornographic spam

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Roy Badami writes:
> One other comment: a rule for this should have a near-zero
> false-positive rate.
> 
> The punctuation in the tag (particularly the hyphen) is deliberate, to
> prevent it matching ordinary English language text, and since it has
> to occur at the beginning of the subject, 'Re:' and 'Fwd:' tags and
> the like would prevent a rule from matching.
> 
> I'm rather pleasantly surprized that the FTC has (purposefully, it
> appears) come up with a label that is designed to be useful to spam
> filters...

However, they were mandated to by Congress, and pretty much said outright
beforehand that they reckoned it would be pointless ;)

Lets see if spammers use it.  Several states (if I recall correctly)
already mandate the use of the subject tag "ADV:ADLT".  when was
the last time you saw that?  My guess is that they won't bother,
since they're already flouting CAN-SPAM anyway.

- --j.
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