Doug's Inner Net News
News and views from a software developer's perspective
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Spammers know my email address, but none of them seem to know my first and last name. I'm sure it's not as easy for them to get a person's first and last name as it is to get the email address. Perhaps a very good way to reduce some of the false positives in spam filtering tools is to look for your own name. Perhaps a good way to reduce the chance that your own message will not trigger a false positive is to use the recipient's personal name. A good rule might be to look for the personal name on the first non-blank line of the message, as well as in the To or CC header fields.
News and views from a software developer's perspective
Tuesday, February 11, 2003Spammers know my email address, but none of them seem to know my first and last name. I'm sure it's not as easy for them to get a person's first and last name as it is to get the email address. Perhaps a very good way to reduce some of the false positives in spam filtering tools is to look for your own name. Perhaps a good way to reduce the chance that your own message will not trigger a false positive is to use the recipient's personal name. A good rule might be to look for the personal name on the first non-blank line of the message, as well as in the To or CC header fields.
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