From: James Gray Date: 2009-06-06T23:17:44+09:00 Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet On Jun 6, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Eric Hodel wrote: > On Jun 5, 2009, at 18:49, James Gray > wrote: > >> On Jun 5, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Joshua Collins wrote: >> >>> Yes, there is a bit of spam getting through, but it is not enough >>> to annoy me. I just hit 'report spam' in my Gmail account and I do >>> not get any more mail from that user. >> >> Please never do this! >> >> Gateway messages come from a address I setup for the purpose. You >> are not reporting the spammer. Instead you are reporting me. Our >> host has already threatened to shut the gateway down once due to >> these complaints. If the complaint volume increases, we will be >> forcefully terminated. > > Is it possible to include the usenet Received headers in gateway > messages? They don't seem to be there now. (maybe I'm mis- > remembering Usenet.) This might help my spam filter block these > messages for me. Yeah, it looks like the gateway filters them out for some pseudo- Received headers it adds. It has always done this and I've just never touched that part. I'm not sure if there's a reason for it, like Usenet headers allowing different content. I would need to look into that to say for sure if it could be changed. James Edward Gray II