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[SpamCop-List] Re: Whoops!

Mike Easter MikeE at ster.invalid
Tue Apr 26 04:50:02 EDT 2005


Blammo wrote:
> Mike Easter

>> Jeez -- what is it that junks up those headers so bad?  Those 2
>> different sections called 'X-Spam-Report' are an abomination.
>>
>> The two of them combined add 83 lines to the header, and/while the
>> whole spam is only about half as long as those 'reports'.
>
> Apparently
> "Spam detection software, running on the system
> ueaexchange1.uea.ac.uk (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service
> Version
> 5.5.2653.13)"

That is a really stupid configuration -- copying the spambody not once
but twice and putting it into the header while calling it a 'Content
preview:'

There should be some kind of RFC that puts a limitation on 'excessive'
header contamination, especially stupid header contamination.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin



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