On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote:
>
> > In my spam collection, they're all already caught by the DNS blacklists -
> > but some of y'all aren't using the blacklists.
> >
> > I'm seeing more and more of a strange phenomenon - spam with no body.
>
> Are you sure it's spam and not one of the spates of viruses we're seeing
> at the moment? Does it have an exe attachment?
Yeah, they're spam. They look like partial abortions, actually - they tend
to have spammish headers, (From/To/Subject). No attachments whatsoever.
> > Does anybody get legit mail with no body?
>
> Yep, and I send a lot too (just mailing each other files in the office
> would be one example, and my mail hits the smtp server due to the way it's
> setup here (I refuse to use Outlook)).
No, those have bodies. They just happen to be MIME chunks, possibly not
containing a text/plain "body". I mean that after the blank header/body
delimiter line, there's just -nothing-. Sometimes it is whitespace, but
sometimes -nothing-. Void, Nil, Null, Absense, Naught. Nullity. Zero.
To the tune of a certain Monty Python skit:
It's a bloody empty message.
No it's not, e's just resting.
I do send mail through our pager system that is subject-only, but that
would be easy enough for me to whitelist if I did set up a check like
this.
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Charlie Watts
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