From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:40:24 +0100

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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Received on 2009-12-03