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On Pungenday, the 9th day of Bureaucracy, Padraig Brady confessed:
> How can I repeat a string an arbitrary number
> I.E. I'm missing the repeat in the following:
PREFIX=`perl -e "print '$STRING' x $NUMBER;"`
I'm pretty sure the bsd 'jot' utility can do this too, but I don't

On 06 September 2002, Tim Peters said:
> > Note that header names are case insensitive, so this one's no
> > different than "MIME-Version:".  Similarly other headers in your list.
>
> Ignoring case here may or may not help; that's for experiment to decide.
> It's plausible that case is significant, if, e.g., a particular spam mailing
> package generates unusual case, or a particular clueless spammer
> misconfigures his package.
Case of headers is definitely helpful.  SpamAssassin has a rule for it
-- if you have headers like "DATE" or "SUBJECT", you get a few more
points.
Greg
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Greg Ward <gward@python.net>                         http://www.gerg.ca/
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On 06 September 2002, Anthony Baxter said:
> A snippet, hopefully not enough to trigger the spam-filters.
As an aside: one of the best ways to dodge SpamAssassin is by having an
In-Reply-To header.  Most list traffic should meet this criterion.
Alternately, I can whitelist mail to spambayes@python.org -- that'll
work until spammers get ahold of the list address, which usually seems
to take a few months.
Greg
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