[PLUG] Rejecting spam at the front door

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Chuck Mize wrote:

> The spammers are getting desperate. This is the subject line of a spam I
> got this morning: ;^Gi;rl;s, -on'ly li,ke big RO:DS_*

  Eggactly, Chuck. This is why I wonder if some clever person has come up
with a regex to identify words like this so they can be rejected.

  Could it be done with a combination of ~[A-Z,a-z,0-9]? Sometimes there is
legitimate punctuation in a subject line.

Rich

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