>At 10/5/2004 19:12 Tuesday, Sherry Beauchamp wrote:
>>>Error-Text: Mailer mail04.GLOBALCROSSING.COM said:
>>> "550 Error: Your subject had too many adjacent spaces.
>>>Please change the subject and try again. HF-SPAM"
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:18:30 -0400, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>It means that some anti-spam software rule was B.A.D. -- broken as
>designed i.e., a false-postive in this particular case.
>/pete
I've been getting this on my list from time to time when LISTSERV tries to
impose a hanging indent on the Subject line, a practice which is as
outdated as 80-column monospaced text and unncessarily trips spam
detectors like the one above.
> Subject: text text text text text text text text text
> text text text
which looks like this to some spam detectors when superfluous whitespace
characters are made visible as "_":
"text text text text text text text text text ____________text text text"
Is the feature that inserts spaces into the Subject line likely to be
removed in the future?
--
Michael