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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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