We actually receive several emails that contain graphics as an attachment. (We do a lot of logo work and graphics design). While I would not have a problem catching HTML with only a single img src tag in it, I would want image attachments not to be included as a "Hit".
Then the spammers just attach the said image, and it displays in the outlook window anyway. Just my $.02 Jay Hodges Draco Digital, LLC http://www.dracodigital.com http://www.luv2goshop.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Text as images > On Thu Apr 25 at 04:27:26 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > Who cares? There's a damn near 100% probability such a message is spam. So we > > add a new heuristic for it. Send it along. > > It's not *that* great of a probability that a message with only images is > spam. I've received them more than once from friends who wanted to show me > something. Maybe with a "Here:" or "Look at this!" at the beginning. Sure, I > wish they wouldn't do that. I'd prefer that they just send a URL or attach > the file to a plain text message. But some people don't know better, and I'd > rather avoid losing messages from my friends. > > In any case, the message in question was caught by SA for other reasons, so > it didn't actually get through. I've attached a copy to this message. > > sean > > -- > Sean Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Sometimes the truth is like a > http://www.dogcow.org/sean/ | second chance" > | --Dar Williams > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
