Hi All-- Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 08:22:48 -0600: > > The listowner could turn on the [PYTHON] headers. > > I hope they don't. >
What's your reasoning? > > I'm not using spambayes yet, although I'm leaning toward it, but that > > step alone could save me some work when trying to decide based on > > subject line alone whether or not an email is spam. As it stands now, > > it's too easy to decide incorrectly that "Subject: Inelegant" is a > > spamdunk. > > Don't base your decisions (only) on subject then. Oh, and spam sent > through the list would have the [PYTHON] space eater too, so what > would it buy you? > Of course I wouldn't base decisions _only_ on whether or not [PYTHON] appears in the subject. But I ordinarily do base decisions on the whole subject line, and I think that's perfectly reasonable. There's nothing else to go on without opening the message, and for HTML-based mail there's no surer way to let spammers know they've found a live email addres than to open it. You know that. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
