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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:58:43 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Manik Raina wrote:

> 	Now , these mails keep making rounds on this list, though
> 	they've improved my knowlege of African power politics
> 	somewhat, and improved my who's who in Africa, i would
> 	really like it if we could shut the spammer up.

Little chance.  These messages are generally written in such
a way that there are no useful regexps to distinguish the 419
spam from legitimate email.

I think spamassassin catches about half of the 419 scams, maximum.

kind regards,

Rik
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Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".

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