Don Hammond <throwaway-o6jBk1rMVBbF(_at_)tradersdata(_dot_)com> wrote:
On 4 Feb, dman(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com wrote:
| I was annoyed that the eBay mail tripped various spam traps of my
| own, which I then had to write around. 'Sokay, though -- all part
| of the game. I look, when that happens, for ways to tighten my
| noose generally rather than exclude specific parties from the traps.
It can be a challenge to keep things both working AND generic enough to
avoid something that looks like a Rube Goldberg contraption held
together by duct tape and baling wire, can't it?
Yup. :)
So there's no confusion, though not exactly on point, the 4 messages
were not from ebay, but from the sellers who I guess had some
arrangement with paypal (a payment service) for auto acks. I don't
know that because I refuse to have anything to do with paypal, but I
think that's a reasonably educated guess. These were acknowledgements
Yes, that is what it is. That is also what I experienced. I also
had some mail from the German eBay customer service dept., though,
that included what had once been an IP address in the lowest
Received: header, which IP had been munged to four literal dotted x's
inside brackets. And the Message-ID was creepy, too.
in addition to the official ones from ebay, and not something you'd
have to allow for generally. Of course, there are other places that
provide the same or similar services and you're probably correct to
expect some more spammy fingerprints from your journeys into the
netherworld of ebay.
Yes. Well, certain addresses of mine are reserved for eCommerce.
Those get an extra boost in my $TRUST heuristic, and are thus
excluded from as hard scrubbing in the spam seives as are other
types of messages. If the address goes bad altogether (this has
happened once so far, because I was foolish enough to use it in
a web site's guest book), I retire it, and it goes in my (very
small) blacklist.
--
dman
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