On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:57 PM, <b...@mail.python.org> wrote: > Why do people add character like [* SPAM *] to their subject > lines ?? Is it supposed to do something ?? I figured since > programmers hang out here, maybe one of you know this.
People don't. It's something added by a spam filter that thought that the email was likely to be junk (in this case, a 70% probability thereof). If you're curious as to exactly _why_ the filter thought that, check the email headers - it's all there, in exhaustive detail. The purpose of the tag is to let recipients make some simple filter rules (eg "if it has SPAM in the subject, put it in a separate folder") and/or to be able to eyeball spam easily. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
