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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:46:11 +1000
From:      Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
To:        scott@statsci.com
Cc:        faried nawaz <fn@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>, chat@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spam 
Message-ID:  <5037.868488371@nemeton.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707091933.MAA03750@knife.statsci.com> 

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On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 12:33:21 -0700  Scott Blachowicz wrote:

> >   > X-UIDL: 25826933169976324632371938674312
> > 
> > POP servers generate that when you grab mail.
> 
> If it's generated by the server when the mail is grabbed, then _I_ shouldn't 
> generally receive email with that header in it, right? (I'm not getting my 
> email via POP).

Correct.  I have found it a useful heuristic for spam filtering.

Giles



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