[Spambayes] Spamvolution

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Is any of the To: addresses amongst Bruce's set of bait addresses?
> 
> Nope.  This message was delivered to "Rose, Ernie & Pat"
> <bluegoose.kennels@bfsmedia.com>, which is why
> "bfsmedia-bluegood.kennels@bfsmedia.com" shows up in the
> Delivered-To: line at the top of the message (it's a qmail-ism
> resulting from the bfsmedia.com being a virtual domain -- i.e. the
> addresses in it /don't/ correspond to Unix accounts on that server).

Ah, and that's in the To: list as well.

> This looks like it doesn't belong in the spam corpus -- it's a
> legitimate (albeit mass-addressed) piece of mail.  If you and your
> prize dog were going to be on national TV for the first time,
> wouldn't you email everyone in your addressbook, telling them to
> watch?  <wink>

Looks like you're right -- Rose, Ernie & Pat must be colleagues of
Bruce at bfsmedia then.  But then how did it end up in Bruce's spam
collection?  Forwarded by a colleague?  Or did he look at all messages
coming in through that domain regardless of destination?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)