"Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
news:bmktk8027tp@drn.newsguy.com...
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 01:11:55 GMT, Marc  ...
> >
> >
> >"Drew Hamilton" <awh@awh.org> wrote in message
> >news:q02u51-9u6.ln1@urd.awh.org...
> >> Eric Takabayashi  <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> >> >Today, I found "Etakajp, now you can squirt it like a
> >> >firehose!"
> >>
> >> As an aside, what spammers thought that it would be a good idea to
> >> include the username in the subject line?  Do they think that would
> >> fool me?  Most of my friends don't tend to use my name in the subject
> >> line of emails.  And even if by chance someone did, they wouldn't call
> >> me "Awh" the way that the spammers do...
> >
> >Awh, my understanding is that this is one way a spammer can randomize the
> >subject line, by adding the sent to name onto the string. Also why all
the
> >random characters in spam subjects, supposed to defeat simple filters
> >looking for identifying subject lines.
> >
>
>
> My ISP has user definable filters. One that I have set up is my username
in the
> subject line will delete the mail. The random meaningless characters beat
> filters, but make it easy to visually identify the spam. (But we have
better
> ways of stopping spam)

my spam filter, guaranteed 99% effective or your money back:

1) the email originates from an open proxy
2) it contains a URL from a site hosted in China or Brazil
3) the URL contains the character @ or %
4) the message contains the phrase "really works"

Any two of the four tags the message as spam.