forwarding of spam problem?

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Eric Wood wrote:

> If another user gets spam, and forwards a copy of it to me (with indentions
> and '>' signs in the first column), will bogofilter pretty much do the same
> thing with a message that is forwarded as it would not forwarded?  I assume
> I should get my users to knock out the "----- Original Message ----- " that
> LookOut Express put at the top of the message so those words don't get
> tokened - but is the > signs okay to leave?

That all seems pretty unimportant and you could easily
filter out the Original Message line. The problem is with
the header of the spam which probably is totally lost this
way. And, of course, you must make sure not to use the
header of the forwarder.

pi