On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Normally spammers will do anything they can to slip past filters. The polite
and semi-official thing to do is to include a non-empty X-Advertisement:
header, but there is no set standard.
Hmmm yet I thought both smail and sendmail have priorities, in fact I know
UUCP does also, such that some level of priority is lie priority post or
personal email and and there is a priority known as junk or bulk. Although
the UUCP system allows at least all the lowercase and uppercase alphabet
as priorities, I thought that in the MTA somewhere is set what level among
those to use for bulk? I got the impression fro mthat that mail is
expected to have a precedence when it arrives, in order that e.g. UUCP
knows whether or not it is bulk or list or normal in order to decie which
priority to assign it. Maybe I am completely out of touch. I'll have to
try to find time one day to go have another look at UUCP; and perhaps UUCP
is too far out of date? Though I thought I saw too something in
sendmail.cf ah yes whats this then
###########################
# Message precedences #
###########################
Pfirst-class=0
Pspecial-delivery=100
Plist=-30
Pbulk=-60
Pjunk=-100
To what does the aboe chunk of sendmail.cf refer if not to some means of
separating list, bulk, and junk mail from regular mail?
Blessed Be. -MarkM-
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