[wplug] OT -- Hoax Information Websites

[Doug Green]

No, I meant in the header itself, not he subject line or the CC line. Most
of these that I receive are simply "forwarded" and have an obscenely long
header block, by which the email can be traced for generations. The people
that send this crap to me don't take the time to trim anything down- so I
get pure sludge. :) While it wouldn't be a perfect screen, it seems like
this method would intercept some of the garbage.


On 4/20/05 4:45 PM, "John Harrold" <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:

> Sometime in April Jonathan Billings assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | > Is there a way to block emails that have a certain number of "forwards" in
> | > the header? That might be a start.
> | 
> | The problem is that there is no strictly defined way of defining the
> | number of forward hops a message has taken.  People trim the Subject
> | line, or change it altogether.  Also, each email client encapsualtes
> | the forwarded message in their own special way.
> 
> I think he may have ment the number of addresses in the Cc: field, but I
> could be wrong.