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Spam Catchers Block Latest Crypto-Gram
An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier sent out a note about SpamAssassin and possibly other spam filters blocking his excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter. Fortunately you can get it here (early no less!)." Schneier's email reads, in part "Tomorrow I will be sending out the February CRYPTO-GRAM, as I do on the 15th of every month. In the process of creating this month's Crypto-Gram, I discovered that SpamAssassin thinks that this issue is spam, probably because of certain links and descriptions of scams in the text. I have anecdotal evidence that other spam filters block Crypto-Gram as well. ... I'd apologize for the inconvenience, but I'm not sure what I could do to make it less so -- I don't intend to alter my content to accommodate spam filters."
block that important e-mail I was waiting for on enlarging my....never mind, I have to check my e-mail now.
SpamAssassinAssassin could look at the folder where you put your filtered mail and learn what to pull back out, and flush the rest to /dev/null.
I'm sure Paul Graham will be glad to write it in lisp.
Or, of course, we could just do what the obvious solution is: get in a P.O. Box, send out spam for herbal viagra and penis enlargement, and when you get the checks in the mail HUNT THE CUSTOMERS DOWN AND KILL THEM.
It's simple, really.
...if I put "hot teens go crazy for debt-free viagra while earning $$$ from home" in the middle of some fine Shakespeare, that will get flagged as spam.
eMerchant of Venice. Act I Scene IV, right?