[Techtalk] spam filters

Gebhard Dettmar gebhard.dettmar at student.hu-berlin.de
Thu Oct 26 19:13:43 UTC 2006


On Thursday 26 October 2006 18:55, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Terri Oda writes:
> > [...]
>
> For a while, a lot of those spams called their messages "img001.gif",
> so I got the bright idea of blocking any message with an attachment
> of that name. I mean, what real person would attach an image with
> a name like that?
>
> That didn't last long. Turns out tons of people do that, for images
> that contain things like a blue-sky background image for their html
> mail (I'm so glad I use mutt and read messages in plaintext), or
> their company logo. You'd think they'd name the image sky.gif or
> logo.gif or something, but noooo. When I started seeing mail from
> Google recruiters including images by that name (for the company
> logo) I decided filtering it was probably a bad idea.

The question is if was you who had the "bad idea"
SCNR
Gebhard
(who blocks both html mail and gif attachments in Kmail and has really few 
mismatches with it)

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