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Re: [OT] Verification required?

On Dec 29, 2003, at 6:04 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

This includes stuff for sales, webmaster, etc. The domain names are not for a companies that need to take in that kind of feedback so I can get away with just dumping those e-mails. I can understand the need to filter e-mail coming in to those kind of addresses if you have a large enough company where you can't just throw away inquiries to sales, webmaster, etc. That kind of filtering is not for mere mortals, that's when you step up and pay for a major professional solution.

I wonder if I could sell my filter program... or sell installation of it...

Hey if it works there is big bucks in filtering spam. Sometimes I wonder if the same guys who are selling spam filters aren't working the other side also and generating spam to drum up business selling filters.

You can get by with some of the less expensive/involved filters but at the cost of sweat on your brow, misfiltered e-mails, and lots of spam still leaking by.

The sweat on my brow was fun! And I think I just figured out how to weed out the ones where the username is valid but the quoted name is not, such as

"Not Walter" <walter@...>

I'm trying out this filter rule:

if raw:to matches ^"[\w+(\s+\w+)*]+"\s<[-\w]+@natural-innovations and
raw:to does not match ^"Walter(\s+\w+)*" then trash

Umm... did I do those regex's right? It's 3am...

Bleh, try as I might I still can't grok regex as well as I want to. All the slashes and quotes and brackets make my head start to spin after a while...

- Ken
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 >[OT] Verification required? (From: Christian Jon Anderson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Graff <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Graff <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)



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