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From: Darrell Martin <>
Subject: Re: [LO] All these stupid brokerage reject messages
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:26:46 -0400 (EDT)


Hi, Dan:

I don't think the presence of "RE:" is a reliable test of spam/non-spam. A genuine attempted message to the list that is not a reply will not necessarily have "Re:", or any variation thereof, in the subject line.

I'm not saying that you *should* be seeing non-RE messages; but it is definitely *possible*. And if 98% is close enough for you, I think just ignoring all pending messages will accomplish that task. At least, it would for my lists.

I check the notification message to me to see if it looks even mildly interesting. If not, I sometimes go to pending messages and delete what's there (if I have nothing better to do with my time); or, just wait 14 days for it to die a natural death (usually).

Darrell

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dj <>
>Sent: Jul 24, 2008 12:13 PM
>
>I filter out every thing in the subject line that does not contain RE: this
>help a lot because 98% of the spam does not have RE:
> I dont see any messages to Rw that dont have it.
>
>Dan M



Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter in exile in Illinois


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