On Sun, 19 May 2002 the voices made Daniel Quinlan write:
> I thought this was an interesting idea, so it was a shame it didn't
> pan out. I tested all dates (Date: and Received: headers) found in
> emails to verify that the day of the week had been correctly assigned
> on the theory that spammers might not be able to get it right.
>
> For example, on May 19 2002, it's always Sunday as long as you're
> using a Gregorian calendar. If an email comes through as May 19 2002,
> but it's tagged as Monday or Tuesday, then maybe it's an incompetent
> spammer.
>
> Apparently, spammers always get it right. Oh well.
How about looking at the date/time when the e-mail was supposedly sent and
when it was actually received; did you see any such patterns?
I haven't thought about this for years, but Daniels lil project reminded me of
a cpl of years ago where spam with too old dates always ended up at the top of
my inbox (that mailreader was replaced by Pine a long time ago)...
/t
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