mjd-lists-plug on Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:50:29 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] spamassassin


Walt Mankowski:
> For example. on technical discussion lists (such as this) people
> often post messages with subjects in all caps because it happens to
> be the name of some piece of hardware they're trying to get work.

A few years ago I expermientally tried adding a rule to my spam filter
to discard mail whose subject was all-caps.  The next message I
received was from my brother-in-law with subject 'F.Y.I.'.

I adjusted the rule to only reject messages with all-caps subjects if
they were longer than 10 characters.  The following day, I got mail
from my most important client with a subject something like "URGENT:
THE WEB SITE IS BROKEN".

That was the end of that rule.

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