On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Greg Ward wrote: > 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"?
That's work email (where I don't care about spam that much) - home is matt @ sergeant.org. > > 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. I just think it's a tricky fringe case - where the local part is the first name. So you'd have to have some config to say what your first name is, and have the test avoid that. On large ISP-type setups that gets really hard. -- Matt. <:->get a SMart net</:-> ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
