Theo Van Dinter wrote: > It's the only version that didn't cause a ton of false positives. > For instance, assume someone uses their first name as their username: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] They'll get legitimate mails like "please update this > spreadsheet bob ASAP", or "bob, let us know if you can goto lunch", etc.
Being as my name is Bob I get a lot of that. :-) Well, I don't actually. I usually drive the lunch bus and so the mail is going the other direction. But here are some samples of what I do frequently get with my name in the subject. Subject: Bug 08378 was submitted by Bob Proulx Subject: Bob is out Friday/Monday Subject: TWiki - Registration for BobProulx Subject: Bob's Task List -- December 2003 > As I said though, I didn't check the full email address in the header ... > That can still false positive (a specific example would be "mailing > list reminder for [EMAIL PROTECTED]"), but I'll throw it in for testing > to make sure. :) It is a hard problem. My login is 'rwp' (Because I am a Robert William) and here are some examples of legitimate work messages with my login in the subject line. Subject: Bug 08378 was submitted by rwp Subject: autorpm xpm error on cvl-sbcm (rwp doesn't exist) Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Time to Change Your Domain Account Password (COL-SPRINGS\RWP) Subject: PCO file: endofmsg_term_fix by: rwp Bob
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