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Re: ADV: ENCORE DEVELOPMENT...YOUR CUSTOM HOME BUILDER IN MD, D.C., & VA.txt

1999-03-09 07:44:36
In what way is this "honest".  The headers are forged and he has used
this group to get around peoples' filters. I have compalined to
his provider and his up line providers.  If everyone radidng this list
did teh same then maybe we can et him shut down.



On 8 March 1999, Bob Weissman <bobw(_at_)lore(_dot_)kla-tencor(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something, but this is an "honest" spam in that it
contains "ADV:" at the start of the subject header to indicate that it
is an advertisement. Some others use "UCE:" to indicate an unsolicited
commercial email. There is nothing easier than a simple

:0
    * ^Subject: (ADV|UCE):
    /dev/null

to filter out this whole class of "honest" spams. (In fact, I never
saw the original email, only thereplies.)

  Unfortunately I also receive legit mail from a group called ADV...

  Regards,

  Liviu Daia

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