[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[Michael R N Dolbear]

N. Miller <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote 
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:42:28 -0000, antioch from SpamCop wrote:

> > I am receiving daily, into my Inbox between 50-100 emails marked as
SPAM 
> > i.e.
> > 
> > [SPAM] Purchase medications with..................................

> Email is always sent to the correct email address, using the SMTP
"RCPT TO:"
> command. This is email address is not required to be stamped in
headers by
   [...]
> MS Outlook Express never had a native spam filter. The only way for a
> Subject: line "SPAM" tag to appear in the Subject: line is for some
mail
> handler to add it before passing it to MS Outlook Express. Either
something
> on your computer, or something at your provider mail host. Otherwise,
it was
> sent with that tag. Based on your comments in other articles in this
thread,
> I would say it is your provider. Tech support doesn't always get it
right
> WRT what their service does.

Indeed.

But there is a terminology difficulty here.

"antioch"'s ISP may be saying "there is no spam filter" because all
email is being delivered to his Inbox even though some has the subject
line altered to include '[SPAM]'. (often called tagging). It seems the
ISP previously provided a profile setting to cause such emails to be
shunted aside into a webmail folder, bypassing the Inbox and thus
qualifying to be called a spam filter (Freeserve aka Wanadoo aka Orange
still do it that way). Some providers do tagging on outbound mail too.

Equally OE's Inbox Assistant is not a spam filter but it can filter
mail to a junk folder based on various items such as the text found in
the subject line. Which text may be inserted by a mailing list
application or by a ISP's Spam detector.

-- 
Mike D