Please-Top Posting or Bottom but NOT both!

Gerry Doris gerry at DORFAM.CA
Sat Jun 14 19:43:12 IST 2003


On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> At 17:29 14/06/2003, you wrote:
> >RedHat's sendmail-8.12.8-5.80 that comes with RH8.0
> >
> >On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > > What MTA are you using?
> > >
> > > At 17:05 14/06/2003, you wrote:
> > > >I'm using MS 4.20-3 and noticed that some blacklisted mail is not being
> > > >tagged / filtered.
> > > >
> > > >My spam blacklist is all in lowercase, whereas the sender's domain name
> > > >uses uppercase letters as well.
> > > >
> > > >I have this in my blacklist file:
> > > >From:           @globalautoindustry.com         yes
> > > >
> > > >The spammer is sending mail from @GlobalAutoIndustry.com
> > > >
> > > >Are these lists case sensitive?
>
> Before it stores the sender address of the mail, it converts it to lower-case:
>          $message->{from} = lc($from);
> --
> Julian Field
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Boy, it sure would be nice if people consistently replied at the top of
messages or the bottom (where posted replies should go!).

I'm not overly hung up about this but when some messages are top posted
and others in the same thread are bottom posted...well, it sure makes it
difficult to read!!!

--
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer



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