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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-12-20 12:27 pm
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procrastination, geek style

The trouble with writing a tool to go through the spam bucket throwing out joe-job responses and virus-bearing mails is that I'm more likely to let it fly when half-written than to figure out some more things it could automatically delete. And when it flies, it takes a long, long time to get through the source data:
3464 of 19259: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@avp-mail.gin.ru>
removing spamassassin markup
text/plain
message/delivery-status
message/rfc822
contains spam 18.442/5
3465 of 19259: Mail Delivery Service <postmaster@henderson.inet.fi>
removing spamassassin markup
text/plain
message/delivery-status
text/rfc822-headers
3466 of 19259: postmaster@goucher.edu
removing spamassassin markup
text/plain
message/delivery-status
message/rfc822
contains spam 8.414/5
Only 15793 more to go!