you know the type, lots of random text and the spam is in an attachment that changes ever so slightly to avoid getting a unique signature for razor/pyzor and friends.
I looked into the text of some of those (got hundreds if not thousands a day to choose from) and the text is also very topical. this bit of spam seems obviousely designed for an OSS person (as in, harvested from a web archive of a technical mailing list?) with words from the FOSS world mixed in and even "Hebrew" and "rtl" for a more direct hit on some of us, specific words that will be "kosher" for the bayesian check... ----- Forwarded message from options <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Georgian german greek hebrew? Projects coding module owners hacking get the, source build. Kb zipfile os, disk image universal binary? And more can be found. Bureau, industry security denied parties orentity office foreign. Be found on beta page released notes contain system. Georgian german greek, hebrew rtl themes hungarian italian, nepali? Bonsai lxr faqsyou are? Language packlinux dmg belarusian. Report problem tools bugzilla tinderbox. Containing suite both powerpc. Nepali norwegian bokmaringl polish russian spanish spain. Operating platform md sums available packages tarballs. Release is preview, of upcoming stable version showing off. French georgian german greek hebrew rtl themes hungarian italian. ----- End forwarded message ----- also, I once thought that using the many addresses I do would help me filter out spam easier, but today I discover it just means I get more copies of the spams to too many addresses. the only option is of course to authorize with a while list, like I saw some services have. first time you send me and Email I make sure you are human with a return mail to a URL with captcha, and you can then mail me freely. this kind of setup is a problem with mailing list, return mail from websites you just subscribed to but have no idea where their automatic mail will come from... in short, it's a serious pain in the butt, but possibly worth it. what do YOU do to fight this? the smartest filter I know is Google's and even IT fails on some spams every day. -- Stranger in paradise Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
