On Thursday 03 December 2009, trotter wrote:

> A subject like "hi" has been put into my junk mail folder since
> spammers use it to con people to open the message.

I would expect such a rule to have an undesirably high false-positive rate.

Maybe your non-spamming senders have different habits from mine.

> I only realised when the subject line was changed in this email.
>
> It might be a good idea to have [rockbox] put in the subject of the email
> group to help avoid this in the future.

I use the List-id header to identify emails from mailing lists as a fairly
reliable indicator that it's not spam:

List-Id: Rockbox <rockbox.cool.haxx.se>

Regards,

Antony.

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software for us. Of course it might take a while.
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