On 2025-08-16 at 17:01:05 UTC-0400 (Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:01:05 -0400)
Alan via users <spamassassin.tw...@ambitonline.com>
is rumored to have said:
On 2025-08-16 16:03, Hans Mayer wrote:
Dear All,
Interesting. I never saw this, maybe because I didn't look close
enough.
But stupid question: Why does it make sense for spammers or in
general for newsletters to add hidden text ?
// Hans
To evade Bayes filtering. It's usually a large body of text taken from
a book or something similar, so a text analysis makes the whole
message look less spammy overall.
There's a funny thing about that; published prose and non-spam email do
not actually look very similar.
It's also noteworthy that most of the spammers who do that use the most
disreputable infrastructure of the net. It is very rare from
quasi-legitimate (ESP) or mixed (retail mailbox provider) mail sources.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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