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Re: Why Spam is a problem

2002-08-16 15:29:05

John Stracke <jstracke(_at_)centivinc(_dot_)com> writes:
Mmm, but that pours gasoline on the villagers' torches.  It'd be much
more clearly a crime, since it's so obviously an attempt to evade the
recipient's filters.

Are you kidding? They've been doing thing to explicitly evade filters
for years now. For example, ever notice groups of random characters at
the end of spam Subject: lines? those are there to evade some of the
early filtering techniques based on having trap addresses that got
spam and rapidly distributed block lists based on what arrived.

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Perry E. Metzger                perry(_at_)piermont(_dot_)com
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