[oclug] Header Question

Rod Giffin rod at giffinscientific.com
Tue Apr 19 20:33:15 EDT 2005


On Tue, April 19, 2005 20:33, miden said:
> At band camp, one time, farrell at cyberia.coldstream.ca said:
>> 	Random words are there to try and confuse spam filters. Plain and
>> simple.
>
> Sorry if I'm being a bit dim or unclear. I understood the use of random
> words vs spam filters but was wondering if lines titled 'Newsgroups',
> 'Comments' etc. would ever appear in legitimate email and if so what use
> they would be.

They could appear in legitimate e-mail, probably but not likely that many
unrelated words all at once.  Keywords would be their use, to aid in
filtering.

Rod.



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