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Re: Habeas

• Posted by munchr at mac.com Feb 28, 2003
• 412 views

Correct.  Topica is likely adding these headers to anounce to spam
filters that the email message is not spam, and the addressee has
in fact requested to be on a mailing list.  Several other mailing list
organizations have signed up with Habeas to help prevent their
messages from being blocked as possible spam.

Of course, this only works if the spam blockers recognize the
Habeas header as watermark legitimizing the email.

Unless it is causing difficulty with your email program, simply ignore
the header.

PS.  Any "X-" style header has been added to an email by either the
email program, email server/gateway, or the user themselves.  They
are not part of the standard - other than as a way to create a custom
header.

James Powell

At 09:10 PM 27/02/2003 +0100, Juergen wrote:
>
>Hi Pete, you wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:31:35 +0100, Juergen Luethje <eu.lue at gmx.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> What is 'Habeas'?
> > see http://www.habeas.com/
> > You probably configured it sometime in the past and forgot all about
> > it.
>
>Generally speaking, this could have been possible, 
>but in this case, I don't think so.
>
>My e-mail client doesn't put any "X-Habeas-*" headers into the outgoing
>mails. And only my mails, that I sent to Topica, contain these headers.
>Also, now I see that the mails of many other members of this list
>contain the "X-Habeas-*" headers. And:
>
>"In Q4, 2002, Topica works with Habeas, a service designed to eradicate
>spam, to include Habeas headers in all of the company's Confirmed Opt-in
>mail." [http://www.topica.com/pop/privacy_new.html]
>
>So it looks to me, as if Topica adds those headers to the mails.
>
>At my Topica account, I didn't find any possibility, to switch this
>feature on or off.
>Then I created a completely new account, and during this procedure,
>I also saw no possibility to configure anything with "Habeas".
>
>This (together with 4 others) is the first mail from my new Topica
>account, and I'll see, if they also contain the "X-Habeas-*" headers.
>
> > Pete
>
>Best regards,
>    Juergen
>
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