I’m hitting a tiny bit of a theme with my posts. Can you tell it’s that time of the week when I go through my spam filters and check for false positives? That’s what I’m doing and I’m reminded of something that to me is extremely simple to identify. I’m not sure why messages fitting this scenario aren’t immediately flagged as spam and never seen by the user.
I don’t know how many times I’ve gone into my email and noticed messages with a weird date and time. In my view if an email is sent to me with a “Sent On” date prior to the Pony Express being in service, it’s more than likely a spam email. Even if it’s a legitimate email from a reliable source, I probably don’t want to see it. When they realize I’m not getting their emails or responding, then we have the ability to talk about fixing their time server on their personal.
The same would be true for any date where “Sent On” is in the future of the current date. To me those are obvious issues and could be deleted at the server level. Anyone else concur with me here?
I know you can’t clump emails sent in the wee hours of the morning as always spam, I believe they are frequently from senders you may not want to see. Perhaps these could immediately be tagged as junk and kept for review. In fact, I think some email servers already do this as a first level trigger of potential spam sources.
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Why Can’t Easy Filters Catch Spam
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