[Python-Dev] New Pythondoc by effbot (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 19:16:56 CET 2006

[Aahz]

Aside to Georg: your messages are all getting /dev/null'd because you use "spam" in your From: line. I get too much spam to change that, and I'll bet other people use that heuristic. Please change your From: line for this mailing list.

[Georg Brandl]

I don't quite understand that. Why would a spam email have "spam" in the From?

In general it wouldn't. Aahz didn't tell us everything, or he's simply not making sense.

Because I still like ;-) the SpamBayes project, I don't do anything to try to stop receiving spam, and have several email addresses that have been visible for years. Of the 4456 spam I received via Outlook in the last 30 days, onlly 3 had "spam" in the From header:

From: alison at charlotte.dontspam.wsrcc.com From: ".Φ.αΦδ .α±ΩεΓ" <moskowspam at BonBon.net> From: spam <hasting at krause-taylor.com>

It was much more common among ham, including email from you, from the spambayes mailing lists, from SORBS, .... If:

The `From:` header contains "spam" as a substring, case-insensitively.

were a feature SpamBayes scored, it would be a strong ham clue in my training database.

For me, the "-nospam" suffix works relatively good to avoid spam, as most harvesting programs will think this is a false address.

Of course, that may be more useful in Usenet, not in mailing lists.

It's OK by me if you keep using it.

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