Is Comcast prepending "Spam: " to the Subject of some email?

Steve Baker

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Oct 13, 2007, 1:52:13 AM10/13/07

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Seems like it to me. I see that and some header lines like this
sometimes:

X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=0 p=SqFrb-9lAAAA:8
X-CAA-SPAM: 120

Anybody else seeing this? I'd be surprised if some spammers were
kindly labeling their spam for me. The X-Authority-Analysis: line is
definitely Comcast's doing.

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Steve Baker

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Oct 13, 2007, 2:45:49 AM10/13/07

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"Steve Baker" <bak...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:fepmf...@news3.newsguy.com...

If it were it would be in all received e-mail headers.

Steve Baker

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Oct 13, 2007, 3:43:19 AM10/13/07

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Are you talking about the X-Authority-Analysis: line? It *is* in all
email I've seen recently that goes through the Comcast MX servers.
Including test email from outside of Comcast where I know for sure
that that header line wasn't created at the sender end. It's not in
email I send to myself, so I'm guessing it won't show up in Comcast to
Comcast email.
I don't have the Comcast spam filter turned on. If I did, maybe
these emails would wind up in the webmail spam folder (or whatever
they call it)?

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Steve Baker

Nichole

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Oct 13, 2007, 5:28:24 AM10/13/07

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:52:13 -0400, Steve Baker <bak...@comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> Seems like it to me. I see that and some header lines like this
>sometimes:
>
>X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=0 p=SqFrb-9lAAAA:8
>X-CAA-SPAM: 120
>
> Anybody else seeing this?

I JUST got one of these - an email from a friend through a small
mailing list of a group of friends. I don't know how or why it'd be
marked spam in any way (no other e-mail within that same topic on the
list has been marked). It's the only one I've seen so far. I hadn't
looked at the headers (and don't know a whole lot about them anyway,
never heard of that one), and had thought it was a Yahoo Groups
hiccup.

- Nichole

Nil

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Oct 13, 2007, 10:29:48 AM10/13/07

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On 13 Oct 2007, Steve Baker <bak...@comcast.net> wrote in alt.online-
service.comcast:

I was going to ask that same question. I've been getting a lot of these
lately, like 3 or 4 per day for the last week or so.

The "X-Authority-Analysis" tag appears in some of my non-spam emails,
but not all". I find the "X-CAA-SPAM" tag only in these weird spams.

I was assuming the spammers were adding the "Spam" subject tag (not
that I understand why.) If it's some new spam detection measure of
Comcast's, it would be nice if they told us about it.

Claude J

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Oct 13, 2007, 2:00:38 PM10/13/07

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In article <fepmf...@news3.newsguy.com>, bak...@comcast.net says...

Info from the Comcast Help Forum:

Comcast is bringing up a new set of MTA's, ( Mail Transfer Agent ), which
doesn't use BrightMail. They are playing with the filter sets. There is a lot
of back-n-forth about it in the forum. The new MTA's are flaging spam as you've
noticed. I wish that they would make the flag phrase a little more unique.
[Spam:], or *Spam:*.

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Claude

FurPaw

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Oct 15, 2007, 9:54:02 AM10/15/07

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Nil wrote:
> If it's some new spam detection measure of
> Comcast's, it would be nice if they told us about it.

The university where I work has recently been inserting [SPAM??
xx%] in the subject line (where xx% is the probability estimated
by PerlMX Spam Filter). They didn't tell anybody about it, either.

FurPaw

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