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to: CHRIS EVANS
from: MICHAEL MUELLER
date: 1997-07-31 00:00:00
subject: Re: address strings

Hi Chris,
you wrote in /FIDO/VIRUS_INFO at 28 Jul 97:
GF>> Well the spammers have automated the the removal of strings
GF>> from email address.  I would only put the correct address in the
GF>> body of the message.
CE> Yes.  But do you mean the spammers automatically take out REMOVE-ME's and
CE> DELETE-ME's etc from message header e-addresses? ... if so it's just a
CE> matter of thinking up a couple words that the auto spam bot would miss?
CE> -Chris.
And not to write the real address into the message-body as it could be  
compared with the one in the header and so the additional part would be  
detected automaticly.
A maybe good way to avoid junk-mail would be to have a string like  
'deletethis' within the real e-amil-address :-)
Michael
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