On 04 March 2002, Matt Sergeant said:
> "Dear matt"
But your local part is "msergeant", I just checked! How much real mail
do you get that says "Dear msergeant"?
> Doesn't work for me, sorry... I actually see the presence of "dear ..."
> where "..." isn't sir or madam or any other generic term as a sign that
> it's likely not spam. For certain most spammers aren't going to want to
> send emails having: "Dear 42fudge82323" where the recipient is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spammers are increasingly sending out customized messages. They've
figured out that a real "To" header will get past a lot of filters, and
apparently it's worth it for some of them to generate a custom message
for each recipient (which is what you need to do to have a real "To"
header). Probably these are the ones spamming thousands-to-tens-of-
thousands of people, not millions-to-hundreds-of-millions.
Anyways, if you're going to go to the trouble to put
"To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in spam for me, you might as well
add "Dear: gward". It just seems like something that, in the case
of my email address (and lots of other people I suspect), is only
seen in spam.
Greg
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Greg Ward - software developer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org
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