> >On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Bea Hopkinson wrote: > >>> habeas anti-spam headers >> >> sounds very sophisticated - what does it do? >> Can I make it recognize URGENT, African, financial spam and such >> like :)) > >No. There is (or maybe was, I don't know if they still exist) a group >that created a copyrighted haiku that you could license from them for >free and put into the headers of your email message. The idea being, >if everyone that was a legit email sender puts this header into their >outgoing emails. Then everyone else could check for that header with >a mail action, and if it was there, know the email wasn't spam. > >They would not license the header to spammers, so if a spammer used >it, they could then sue the spammer for copyright infringement. > >Back when they started up, they were looking for people to write >directions (or create patches) to insert the headers into as many >mail clients as they could. I wrote the directions and patch for >using the headers with Emailer. > >Alas, the whole thing never really took off as much as they hoped, >and I don't know if they are even still in existence any more.
Could it be that all ISP's have to ask their list members to include this. It would surely help their business. I'm interested in your verbiage "patch" - and am presuming each member would have to follow directions to insert into their software...I can't envisage how difficult this might be? Maybe that's the problem for its adoption? Given how much wasted time is wasted deleting spam everytime you download wouldn't this be a valuable path for all of us to follow? > >> I meant to ask if I use Mail Actions to put in an automatic >> signature to >> my >> Emails? OR is there some other way to do it? > >Mail Actions are only used on incoming mail. Signatures effect >outgoing mail, so no, mail actions would not be used. For a >signature, go to your Setup Menu and choose Signatures. I see this asks you to give it a name. Does this mean you can have a separate signature for different purposes? And is it automatic or do you have to type in the 'name' of the signature at the end of each Email? Bea > >-chris ><www.mythtech.net> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
