Hi Jan!
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Friday, October 4, 2002, 4:18:44 PM, you wrote: DW>> I want to set up a filter to trap DW>> anything with [] anywhere in the subject DW>> line, either on its own or preceded or DW>> followed by any characters. I have DW>> looked, obviously not hard enough, and DW>> not found out how to do this. I'm trying DW>> to build a spam filter and this looks DW>> like an essential ingredient. JR> I don't think so. Every group @ Yahoo! JR> groups, for example, has the list name JR> contained by []. JR> Using the filter you propose, they would JR> all be considered spam. Putting list names in brackets is standard for the benefit of users who don't have a competent email program like The Bat! (most people using web mail, for example). It doesn't seem to be even a proposed RFC, although the IETF recommends using it for their own lists. I don't think I've seen ANY spam that DOES have /[.*/] in the subject line. Hmm, after searching the 773 spams that I've collected since setting up The Bat! less than a month ago, I found exactly two spams that have that, and both are The Bat!-style Re: counters. ("Re:[1]"). If you're using it to filter NON-spam, that should do reasonably well. JR> There are lots of other simple ways to JR> filter for spam. For example, any email JR> *not* addressed to you could easily be JR> filtered out as spam. Not addressed to you AND not whitelisted. If I send a message to several people who don't know each other, I use BCC for both, so their name wouldn't show up, and their systems will likely filter it, if they have filters and don't have me whitelisted. There are a number of anti-spam lists where you can get some good ideas on things to check for. Most such lists are geared more towards anti-spam programmers and anti-spam sysadmins, though. -- --Scott. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! 1.61 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 on an AMD Athlon XP 1900 (1.6G real, 1.9G effective) with 512MB. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
