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But doesn't that filter some legitimate e-mail?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#2)
by beamdriver on Wed May 05, 2004 at 04:04:43 AM PDT

I guess if you never want any e-mail ads of any kind, that would work. I do like a few companies that I've specifically requested to send me deals and such (geeks.com, Southwest, Linkshare, etc.) and they have those strings as well.

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So far it doesn't[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by tscoff on Wed May 05, 2004 at 05:00:20 AM PDT

So far I haven't filtered out any legitimate e-mail that way.  The spammers use different strings in their messages than the legitimate companies do and therefore that doesn't prevent the legitimate e-mail from coming through.

Eventually the spammers will figure out that they need to include links in their e-mail which are identical to the legitimate list serve unsubscription e-mail only links, and when they do that I'll be stuck accepting their junk.  Until then I will be able to easily filter out a large amount of spam using those strings without blocking/rejecting and legitimate e-mail.

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