On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Roland Perry wrote:
> Whereas the spam filters I have mentioned tend to trap emails where the
> "from" and "to" are the same person (because people sending mainly bcc's
> mails still have to but *something* in the "to", and usually put
> themselves).
What can I say? It's a 'spam' filter that traps as spam an email message
that is perfectly well-formed, and constructed according to best practice.
It is broken, if that's the sole criteria for determining that such a
message is spam. I still have no sympathy. If such products are in
existance, we can hope their users discover this broken behaviour and move
on to something rather better and the product dies off.
I would advise any potential sender who introduced this to me as an
argument for not using best practice to not worry about it, and Do The
Right Thing anyway. Natural selection will do the rest.
Jethro.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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