Please Avoid Elipses in Subject Lines

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Mon May 11 08:34:06 UTC 2015


No need to be snarky.. It was a request. And a friendly bit of advice. Not a 
demand.

On Monday 11 May 2015 10:27:26 Reindl Harald wrote:
> 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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