OT - for any email gurus

Just received some SPAM (gasp!) to a Hotmail account.

I looked at the message headers and stuff, and saw (small part):

" Subjectively-Blows: 2767

Thimbles-Cumulative: fcef678f31cb3

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Message-ID:

Destined-Conceding-Motherly: 7C5EE9ED3C9C8

From: Google Support

Terrified-Smokestack: sarasota

Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" "

I am hoping that someone has been smoking stuff and encoding joke header and trace information.

Whatever, it passed all the way through the Outlook service without being flagged as SPAM.

Cheers

Dave R

Reply to
David
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I suppose it's just to "dilute" the information a Bayesian filter will be working from ...

Reply to
Andy Burns

I personally think that a lot of isps have had to reduce their filtering as there have been so many folse positives resulting in lost email in the last year or so If you look at some genuine headers you find some pretty weird stuff and so its probably no different filter wise to what has to be allowed these days. Time was when email headers were less than ten lines, now goodness knows what a lot of them do the main routing ones are still there though. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

Given that the headers aren't RFC compliant, I feel it should have been binned.

Reply to
Bob Eager

Mmm.

X-My-Snot-Tastes-Shit: Yes

is compliant but not

Destined-Conceding-Motherly: 7C5EE9ED3C9C8

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Exactly.

Reply to
Bob Eager

En el artículo , Bob Eager escribió:

"be liberal in what ye accept and conservative in what ye send"

Postel's law.

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Reply to
Mike Tomlinson

In general, I agree. However, with email thes edays one has to err more on the side of conservatism, I feel.

Reply to
Bob Eager

Yes. I Just ignore unknown headers (well and prolly a number of known ones I can't be arsed to worry about).

Reply to
Tim Streater

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