>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geoff Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:45 AM
>To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
>Subject: RE: Gif-Only spams
>
>
>> Check out the interesting idea at www.rulesemporium.com/forums/
>> 
>> entitled: Image attachment MD5 footprint RBL
>
>
>My only comment on a system like this is that it could be 
>easily subverted.
>A spammer could use automated image editting tools to randomly 
>change some
>aspect of the file that would give it a totally different MD5 sum. Like
>changing the lower right pixel to a different color would 
>throw the md5 sum
>way off.

I completely agree. But I'd like to see it tried. Then maybe combine it with
distancing techniques to see how distant one MD5 is to another. 

Baby steps ;) 

--Chris 

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