(Nontechnical summary of following message:  the software is getting
really smart about figuring out what is spam so that it doesn't have to
bother a human with it anymore.)

First, I sent this to a BCC, so I should get a nice high Spam Quotient.
I'm a subscriber, so that would counteract it in practice, though.

Second, we got another sample from the wild:

>Received: from punisher.redzonegames.com (redzone-dsl-5.redzonegames.com
    [206.71.184.132] (may be forged)) by lists.wirebird.com
    (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id NAA27389 for ;
    Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:38:34 -0500

This is one of those headers that isn't normally displayed (and will be
stripped for outgoing list mail, to be replaced by whatever the message
generates anew on its way out to the users). "May be forged" just means
that redzonegames.com isn't the primary domain for the IP address it's
coming from (which is no big deal; phoenyx.net isn't the primary domain
*here*, wirebird.com is, so some people will see that for Phoenyx mail),
which earns George a measly:

X-Spam-Quotient: 1 unverifiable host

Unless you have your Spamfilter aggression factor (which you can't see
yet, so don't panic) cranked up to "rabid chihuahua," the list won't think
twice about sending it through.

--
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net
The Dog Ate My Sketchbook:  http://silver.phoenyx.net/





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