its sort of funny when it is somebody ELSE getting flamed {;)
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Andrew Edelstein wrote:
Mr. Washington,
Would you mind ever so much doing us all the favor of adding a
Precidence: check to your spam filter? (Or any of the numerous other checks
that will bypass list mail.)
Besides, auto-responding to ALL mail that does not contain your magick
key is rather ineffective as a spam filter. It merely serves to confirm the
validity of your email address to the more sophisticated spammers.
Also, spelling the word "spam" in all capitol letters runs afoul of
Hormel food's official policy on the use of their trademark. They prefer
that, if you use the word in connection with unsolicted email, you use it in
all lower case.
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
"We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE,
although we do object to the use of our product image in
association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used,
it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it
from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all
uppercase letters."
And finally, responding with a from address claiming to be within the
domain of the person to whom you are responding is often regarded as a rude
act. It makes your auto-responder look like a spammer itself. Do respond
"from" a domain for which you actually have responsibility. Obfuscating your
sender address when you're just going to stick it in the X-Loop is rather
pointless. (and while we're at it, you don't need to escape the .s in your
X-Loop header, either.)
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References:
<20010728130319(_dot_)A28978(_at_)acadia(_dot_)ne(_dot_)mediaone(_dot_)net>
<20010729182020(_dot_)A47442(_at_)everest(_dot_)wananchi(_dot_)com>
<20010730001139(_dot_)C7149(_at_)acadia(_dot_)ne(_dot_)mediaone(_dot_)net>
<20010730215835(_dot_)L27029(_at_)pure-chaos(_dot_)com>
In-Reply-To: <20010730215835(_dot_)L27029(_at_)pure-chaos(_dot_)com>
X-Loop: wash(_at_)everest\(_dot_)wananchi\(_dot_)com
Subject: Returned e-mail: Password or privileges required
From: Washington's(_dot_)Anti-SPAM(_dot_)Filter(_at_)pure-chaos(_dot_)com
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:56:34 +0300
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Email password required! This is my simple step to counter
Unsolicited Commercial Emails (aka SPAM). I'm sure you receive
them too and don't really relish in them, no?
I have therefore put in place some SPAM foiling procedure,
and sincerely hope that this doesn't annoy anyone. So to help me,
please include the magic word (soleil) anywhere on your subject line.
Then kindly resend your e-mail to wash(_at_)wananchi(_dot_)com(_dot_)
This filter will automagically RTS _ALL_ mails void of the magic word.
Thank you.
----- End forwarded message -----
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