Please Avoid Elipses in Subject Lines

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon May 11 11:25:59 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 14:14 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 11:23 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Why? Is this a defining characteristic of spam? Are you also going to
> > ask the rest of the Internet not to use ellipses in Subject lines?
> 
> Believe it or not.... it is.

A quick search on this list shows over a hundred such messages over the
last few years. Similar searches on other lists show similar results.
Are you saying that all these messages have been blocked by your spam
filter? If so, you seriously need to think about changing it.

poc



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