Re: On spam email......

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From: David J N Begley
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:00

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On 28 Nov 1996, Brendan O'Dea wrote:

> Sendmail has a `Precedence:' field which would be appropriate,
> although I don't think it is covered by an RFC.  Well behaved mailing
> lists use
> 
>     Precedence: bulk
[...]
> Unfortunately, the chances that a bulk e-mailer will voluntarily use
> `junk' precedence and thereby slow the delivery of their `urgent'
> advert are probably pretty slim.

Take a look at your next spam message - they all have "Precendence:" set
to "high" or "urgent".  :-(

The problem with looking for large numbers of recipients neglects the fact
that many spam messages have a single (false) recipient address, or even
none at all.

Cheers..

dave

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Date: 1996/11/28
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