Hello James,

Saturday, September 17, 2005, 6:33:43 PM, you wrote:

JL> Re[any single digit or number ie a-z or 0-9] email is discarded
JL> Re[more then one digit or letter] email is allowed through

JL> As I see it, this rule matches perfectly.  The chance that someone will
JL> send or receive a legit email with Re[just one letter or number] is
JL> highly unlikely.

Check the subject header of this email, generated automatically by my
email software.

It's *because* several common email clients put sequential numbers
into RE[n] that spammers have adopted this as a means to entice people
into opening their emails (thinking it might actually be a response to
something).

Bob Menschel



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