[DCN-TechOps] Re: SPAM tagging

John M. Crowell jcrowell at dcn.davis.ca.us
Tue May 6 10:15:19 PDT 2003


On Tue, 6 May 2003, Steve McMahon wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> I've cc'd the TechOps, since this question probably deserves multiple minds.
>
> My thought is that the "X-Spam-Flag: YES" is sufficient. I believe that
> all recent-vintage email clients allow filtering on arbitrary headers.
> In fact, I used to do so with Eudora before I switched to Mozilla.
>

You're right, of course.  I found the proper filtering option in
Eudora 5.1.  (The "filter" menu option wasn't the way to go; it took
a few extra key clicks under "Tools.")

You've got a good point about modifying the Subject line.  That starts
to encroach on censorship.

	- J

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