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Re: SPAM headers.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Nov 18 07:19:14 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:14:31 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Chris Fishwick wrote:
> 
> > (1) If the To: header is not for nook.net.  Parse or grep the
> > To: line for "nook.net".  If its not there, its SPAM.
> 
> Hmmm... well, the following is part of the header of the message that
> you sent, so applying the above rule, you could kiss goodbye to mailing
> lists...
> 
> -----------------------------
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: SPAM headers.
> -----------------------------
> 
> Regards

Ouch!  You are right on this one.  

See, I just *knew* it couldn't be that simple, however, I think
that my idea would work.  I did mention that there would be
a problem with CC's and BCC's.  A mailing list is really
a mail with BCC's to list members.

Well, any more ideas?

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