Re: [PLUG] weird mozilla spam issue

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Art Clemons wrote:

> >I have noticed that some spam -- that isn't caught by the filter -- 
> >gets automatically marked as read.  This is advertising mail, not 
> viral >vectors.  Have the spammers figured out some protocol that does 
> this, >or has anyone heard about this as a mozilla problem?
>
> I realize I'm coming late to this discussion but is your copy of 
> Mozilla perhaps set to mark some email matching a set of criteria as 
> read. That's what I used to do with Netscape to get rid of spam before 
> better tools and spam detection began.  I found it safer than 
> automatically deleting email or moving most stuff to a junk folder.

No, my filters are set to usually move mail to different folders, with a 
few that delete.  Current mozilla releases have a built in bogofilter 
that marks mail as spam, and you can configure it to move of delete the 
detected spam.  It currently misses about 10% of actual spam (false 
negatives) but only gets 0.2% false positives (1 in 328, today) and 
those tend to be spam looking messages from vendors whose ads I have an 
interest in.

I have noticed that the automatically-marked-read messages tend to have 
as their subject ¨Re:[1]¨ or another number in the same pattern.

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