[BBC-Micro] test of bbc-micro-outgoing address was

Greg Cook debounce at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Oct 27 10:01:38 BST 2006


On 26 Oct 2006 23:28:56 +0100, Jonathan Graham Harston
<jgh at arcade.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Well, actually, I do check the composition of subject lines (along
> with other header lines) to indicate likelyhood of spam.
>  
>  Subject or From ALL CAPS, eg Subject: MAKE MONEY FAST
>  Subject or From containing three or more consequetive characters, eg
>   Subject: LOOK!!!!
>  From not containing a real name, eg: From: fred at domain
>  Subject or From real name shorter than three characters, eg From: Hi
>  
> These go straight into my spambin.

If anyone thinks these are a good idea be careful with the second one,
it'll catch 000 and ... as well as some acccidental mistypes.  IMHO
it's too much to ask someone to rewrite the subject with "thousand" or
"(ellipsis)" unless you're the only recipient and perhaps even then.

Greg



		
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