On Friday 17 September 2004 04:14, Kristopher Spencer-Yates wrote:
> As many of you may have noticed, A friend and I have noticed the odd
> text at the bottom of spam.  My friend once stated "What if this is some
> secret code.. they send it to everyone to hide that it is code.. but the
> person it is intended for knows how to decipher?"

In the early days of spam filtering, one method was to simply take a spam 
message and hash it. The "odd text" at the bottom of the spam is a simple 
ploy to get around this particular method of spam detection.

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