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• So I wasn't the only one... (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981)

  I was a bit surprised when I saw that. I had to read it a few times to see whether or not it was genuine. Mostly, my shock was that it came through bogofilter unmolested. :-)

  -Dom
  • Re: So I wasn't the only one... (Score:1)

    by Smylers (2592) <Smylers@stripey.com> on 2006.02.07 13:14 (#46046) Journal

    I had to read it a few times to see whether or not it was genuine. Mostly, my shock was that it came through bogofilter unmolested.

    Why did that shock you? Or to put it another way round, what aspects of spam messages did that e-mail have such that you'd expect it to be classified as spam?

    It also got through SpamAssassin with a score of 0.0. But I can't see anything in it which would trigger a rule: the content is as you would expect for a job recommendation from somebody who knows you; the headers are all genuine, cos it is from who it says it's from; and even sending to everybody on Cpan is sufficiently well targetted that it isn't going to meet thresholds of high volume mail across the internet as a whole.

    Also, it wasn't specifically trying to invade detection: there isn't anything in it which looks like it was just put there to get round spam filters.

    Smylers

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    • Re: So I wasn't the only one... (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981)

      Mostly just because it was unexpected. Bogofilter is so effective at stopping mail that finding new non-spam mail to my CPAN address is a big surprise. The only mail I get there is PAUSE upload reports...