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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:26:41 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with spam?
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James Takac wrote:
> 
> just set your filter to delete anything from a source that you're not
> interested in. simple, and you don't see it again

It's often not so simple as all that, since the "From:" headers are
usually forged and rarely will a spam appear to come from the same
address more than once.  Subjects are tricky to filter on, too; I once
set a filter to chuck all mails with "XXX" in the subject to avoid porn
mail-- and I promptly lost something from the list about
"djdevXXX.zip".  Great.

But this is getting off-topic, and I suppose followups should go to
news.admin.net-abuse.email or some such forum.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com