Hi, On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:07:00 +0000 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been getting these once in a while, they just seem to have random > words in them.. no sales pitch that I can see. And they are always > different sets of words. This is an attempt to defeat bayesian classifiers. > I made a few tiny edits to obfuscate the recipient, but other than that > it's intact. > > Is it some kind of probe? Nope, chances are you're only looking at the text portion of the message. The real spam payload is in the HTML part. Unless the spammer was too incompetent to attach the HTML part. Are you using a proper mail client that doesn't render HTML? > From: "Gaetano Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: (recip address) > Subject: hydrogenate > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:09:47 GMT > > possessional scurrilous illogical evades bluish scrawny scooped hysterectomy > tensely aeneid ponderous crawlspace executives addenda testify augustus plugs > excess thankless 2nd adducible $RANDO MIZE humors possession creased > accession hyphen bobbing bavaria crochet accompanists mill address mercury > brackets posts BTW, I love seeing $RANDOM IZE and variants scattered through the text. While trying to pollute bayes, they provide us with a virtually foolproof spam signature. :) -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk