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   Spammers

   

   LittleW0lf, Feb 24th, 2004 @ 4:21pm

   
   

   You know, enacting the death penalty for spammers would likely fix all these problems. Plus, it would bring the rules of evolution back in line by removing the dumbest portion of our population.
   
   
   
   On a more serious note, obviously the spam checkers aren't working correctly if they catch "cialis" from specialist... Seems a simple regex of " cialis " would capture the correct words while leaving specialist unharmed. Of course, the spam miscreant could just doctor the word to avoid such a filter.

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   Re: Spammers

   

   LittleW0lf, Feb 24th, 2004 @ 4:38pm

   
   

   You know, enacting the death penalty for spammers would likely fix all these problems. Plus, it would bring the rules of evolution back in line by removing the dumbest portion of our population.
   There is supposed to be a silent "sarcasm" tag in here, but I forgot the html nazi strips off the tags... So in the blank space, put </sarcasm>.
   

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   Re: Spammers

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 24th, 2004 @ 9:16pm

   
   

   Perhaps instead we should enact the death penalty on people dumb enough to pass on the name "Cockburn".

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   Re: Spammers

   

   <g>, Feb 24th, 2004 @ 9:52pm

   
   

   or Pecker

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   Re: Spammers

   

   Matt, Feb 25th, 2004 @ 5:38am

   
   

   it might remove "cialis", but it wouldn't get "!!==>>cialis==!!" ;-)
   
   he should get his company to rename his email to the internet standard c0ckburn

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   badly formatted spam filter

   

   slim, Feb 25th, 2004 @ 7:16am

   
   

   "his company has problems with his email because it bans the word "specialist" (which is in his title) because it includes the name of the drug "cialis" in the middle of the word"
   
   His email administrator is an idiot: He's probably using Mail Essentials 5 on an Exchange server; settings in the program can be made to catch "cialis" but not "specialist."
   
   Secondly, just because the dope's name is Cockburn, doesn't mean his email address has to be [email protected]

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   Re: badly formatted spam filter

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 25th, 2004 @ 10:12am

   
   

   
   
   obviously it does.

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   Duh

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 25th, 2004 @ 10:49am

   
   

   Email filters look at the body of the text too.
   Do you sign your name at the end of an email? He obviously does. Regardless of his email address he is going to get hit.

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   Re: badly formatted spam filter

   

   schleifnet, Feb 26th, 2004 @ 11:54am

   
   

   could be worse, had to setup email for a co with the policy first letter first name first three letters of last name with an employee named toni watts!!
   now that sucks
   even worse she was a sales rep!

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