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>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>:

> * Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>  on Mon, 01 Jul 2002

>> Note that if I had been one of those, your message would have ended
>> up in my spam folder, since I let everything not addressed to one
>> of my addresses, or a mailing list I subscribe to, "fall through"
>> and end up in nnimap+mymachine:INBOX.SPAM.

> True, Bcc to a mailing list is dumb.  But blanket dropping Bcc'd
> mail is also not the smartest thing to do.

Which is why I read that folder occasionally to pick up false matches.

But the folder doesn't have high priority.