Please Avoid Elipses in Subject Lines

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon May 11 08:27:26 UTC 2015


Am 11.05.2015 um 10:23 schrieb Eli Wapniarski:
> I had to go and revisit my anti spam filters because of an issue I had
> getting mail out. I visited the mailing list webinterface and noticed I
> did not receive a complete thread from it.
>
> The thread began with the subject:
>
> Basic Plasma 5 Crashes...
>
> Please notice the 3 periods at the end of the line. Because my server
> has been inundated with efforts to spam, I received a bombardment with
> subject lines containing the elipse.
>
> As a result, I had to filter them out. I am sure that other aggressive
> anti spam filters will filter out those subjects as well.
>
> Please avoid putting Elipses in Subject Lines

please fix your spamfilter or hire someone to maintain it but don't 
expect anybody takes care because you filter based on single chars 
instead score them and train your bayes proper to outweight the penalty 
for legit mail

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