On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Frank Pineau wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:18:38 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: > > >Both contain "goldfish" in the subject, one is just plain "goldfish" > >and one is "Fw: goldfish". > > > >Both come from hotmail addresses. > > > >Both have attachments, one is application/octet-stream, one is > >audio/x-midi. > > > >Both say: > > > > Hi Dear > > Check the attach > > See u > > > >in the body of the message (in HTML). > > > >I was thinking that these messages would already be covered by > >existing SpamAssassin rules, since it seems like a fairly common spam > >message that people are getting. > > Doesn't sound like spam to me. Sounds like someone with a virus > that mails out a random document to everyone in the user's address > book.
Well, the document isn't random. Anyway, if you're talking about theoretical/technical distinctions, perhaps it is virus-related. But there are different definitions of what spam is, and I'm sure it fits some of them. I didn't really want to get into a discussion of whether it's a virus or spam. The thing is, on a practical/functional level, and as it appears to the person receiving the mail, it looks like spam and can be dealt with as if it were spam. It doesn't really matter how it originated. Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576301;v?http://www.sun.com/javavote _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
