[ga] Reducing the noise level

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 07:07 PM 12/19/1999 , Kent Crispin wrote:
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>From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
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>This is not Crispy Kent - this is the lovely Joe Baptista.

Folks,

Again we see fraudulent message authorship coming from a user of 
vrx.net.  The administrator of that system is aware of the history but has 
failed to take action.

That leaves the requirement for the rest of us to filter all mail from 
vrx.net.

Building a filter that looks for "from" and "vrx.net" in a Received header 
is the safest way to ensure an effective filter, since such a Received 
header is put on be the system vrx.net is sending to -- in this case, by 
dnso.dnso.org -- and, therefore, vrx.net cannot work around it.

d/

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