"Tony L. Svanstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Has there been any confirmed cases of spammers using
> In-Reply-To/References-headers (to avoid spamfilters)?
> 
> Ie, using those headers to make their spam look like
> a reply to something you've written on some list/news-
> group.

According to the nightly mass-check results (from 5 developers), yes:

 13.398   0.0172  19.4577    0.001   0.98   -0.54  REFERENCES
 19.725   0.1955  28.5690    0.007   0.98   -0.79  IN_REP_TO

Bug 1314 has a method for more reliable use of the References: and
In-Reply-To: headers.

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Quinlan                      Linux, open source, and
http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/    anti-spam consulting


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