I'm getting the same kind of spam passing through my own SA setup. It appears that when those random words appear at the end of the email, the spammer can place any kind of text at the top, which would be normally rejected by SA's default rules.
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Alex S Moore wrote: > There may be an answer to this question in the mailing list somewhere, but I > cannot find it. > > The spammer sends a mostly non-obfuscated email, and then in some hidden > section (either white on white text, or whatever) sends pages and pages of > random English words (or lately, random prose) separated by whitespace. > > Here is a small example: > >> > ------=_NextPart_000_050C_4061C28D.1380532A > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Et tous les airs que je jouai > Était over the hills and far away. > Another piece of it. > Mercie jolie vache qui fait > Bon lait pour mon déjeuner > Tous les matins tous les soirs > Mon pain je mange, ton lait je boire. > RECREATIONS. > It is a mistake to think that cats are playful. I often try to get a > cat to play with me, and she never seems to care about the game, no matter > how little it hurts.--H.O. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > Page 123 > Making pots and pans with clay is fun, but do not tell the > grown-ups. It is better to surprise them; and then you must say at once how > easily it washes off--much easier than ink.--DICKY. > SAM REDFERN, OR THE BUSH RANGER's BURIAL. > By Dicky. > "Well, Annie, I have bad news for you," said Mr. Ridgway, as he > entered the comfortable dining-room of his cabin in the Bush. "Sam Redfern > the Bushranger is about this part of the Bush just now. I hope he will not > attack us with his gang." > "I hope not," responded Annie, a gentle maiden of some sixteen > summers. > Just then came a knock at the door of the hut, and a gruff voice > asked them to open the door. > "It is Sam Redfern the Bus ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
