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   Question about Thunderbird version in Us   
   10 Apr 08 10:55:18   
   
   From: Me@guy.com   
      
   Starting in late February, I began receiving spam where the user-agent   
   line of the header was this:   
      
   User-Agent:  Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)   
      
   A search of my entire e-mail inventory going back almost 10 years   
   indicates that the only e-mails I've received with "Thunderbird   
   2.0.0.9" in the User-Agent line corresponds only to this new set of   
   spam, and not to any "legit" e-mails.   
      
   My question is this:   
      
   Does "Thunderbird 2.0.0.9" correspond to a string fragment that I   
   would or could encounter in the header of an e-mail sent by a human   
   using some version of Thunderbird?   
      
   Does any version of Thunderbird have:   
      
       "Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)"   
      
   As the exact (and only) contents of the User-Agent line?   
      
   If the answer is no, then I will add:   
      
      [User-Agent contains "Thunderbird 2.0.0.9"]   
      
   	or   
      
      [User-Agent is Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)]   
      
   to the list of spam-detection conditions for my e-mail client   
   (Communicator 4.79).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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