OBORONA-SPAM

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>> Can someone please tell me what OBORONA-SPAM is?
>>>
>>> Matthew Flaschen
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Oh dear
>> I'm sorry - it's my fault.
>> My mail provider (Yandex) adds OBORONA-SPAM to the subject of every 
>> email it thinks is spam. Unfortunately it always thinks mail-list emails 
>> could be spam. When I reply to a post I have to manually delete 
>> OBORONA-SPAM from the subject, but sometimes I forget, or can't be bothered.
>>
>> When I was using KDE, Kmail had an option to automatically rewrite the 
>> messages headers and remove it. But months ago I switched to Gnome, and 
>> more recently to OS X, and I can't find a way to rewrite messages 
> 
> There's always an SMTP proxy. :)
> 
> Don't worry.  It seems to be an international sensation
> (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&hs=uUu&q=OBORONA-SPAM&btnG=Search).
>   I have to say, though, it seems a pretty stupid spam tagging method.
> My ISP/university adds X- email headers which aren't displayed.  It tags
> it  with a rating (how likely to be spam) and descriptive tags.  Both
> can be fed into Thunderbird, though I use just the rating.  For example,
> the header for your email was:
> 
> X-GT-Spam-Rating:  (7%)
> X-GT-Spam-Details: No antispam rules were triggered by this message
> 
> Matthew Flaschen
> 
> 


I'm quite happy with my mail provider. Don't fancy changing either, 
nothing really wrong. But the spam thing is annoying, it is so sensitive 
that virtually every email I receive is marked with OBORONA-SPAM. 
THought that it would have learned by now....!