Richard Damon wrote: > Minor nit, SPAM filters really don't determine compliance to the > standards, they determine the likelihood of a message being > "undesirable". If being 100% compliant to the RFCs made a message immune > to being detected as spam, then there would suddenly be a LOT of 100% > compliant messages being sent out as spam. > > If someone has evidence (or even just have convinced themselves) that > the inclusion of a "Time Zone" comment in the date field is a good > predictor of a message being spam, then they will make such > determinations, and reject such message. > > Spam blocking breaks some of the principles of the RFC in reliable > message delivery because people don't WANT those messages reliably > delivered, and for some strange reason the spammers aren't doing things > to clearly mark there messages as spam.
*nod* And then you add in the eye-crossing volume of variously legitimate mail that is variously NOT standards-compliant... -kgd
