Re: Mime = Spam?

"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com> Sun, 18 August 2002 19:22 UTC

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Comments: In reply to Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> "Re: Mime = Spam?" (Aug 18, 11:05am)
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On Aug 18, 11:05am, Dave Crocker wrote:
} 
} At 07:46 PM 8/18/2002 +0200, Jacob Palme wrote:
} >It is interesting to note that many of the advanced
} >features of MIME give spam points.
} 
} spam filter rulesets are typically derived from a kind of statistic 
} analysis of a group of messages that are considered to be spam.

Worse is that a number of sites are rejecting all multipart/alternative
messages as having "dangerous executable attachments" -- presumably
because of the Klez virus -- even when there are no executable parts.