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   Jeff Duntemann, 10 Jan 2004 @ 7:51pm

   
   

   That address is actually pretty useful...

   ...because it's something to filter on that is unlikely to yield a false positive. Since January 1 I've begun to get a small handful of spammers who put a postal address at the bottom of their mailings, and I filter on the street address. So far it works--I watch my spam carefully to judge the effectiveness of my filters, and one particular company, which apparently owns dozens of domains, has not gotten into my inbox since I added its postal address to my filters. I don't even care if it's a real address, as long as it doesn't change from message to message. (If too many people begin doing this, however, it probably will.)

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