Spam filtering (was: Re: [wplug] Re: A gentle reminder on posting etiquette)

[Tim Lesher]

Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:17:04AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>   
>> For what its worth, a well written text-only message is still only a 
>> couple of kilobytes of data on the disk.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, thanks to spam filtering, virus scanning, etc., the
> headers are often bigger than the body.  In the message from Jonathan
> to which I'm replying, there are 69 lines (~3KB) of headers, with 48
> lines (~2KB) of body.  And the ratio is probably worse for this one. :-)
>
>   
With all due respect, I call baloney.

Number of lines of headers in the referenced message: 67
Number of lines of headers attributable to spam/virus scanning: 9
Number of lines of headers attributable to WPLUG's mailing list software: 12

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Tim Lesher
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