At 05:40 PM 9/18/2005, Dan Kohn wrote:
I've obviously seen the trend of just sending a URL with random text on top.
But how is this spam message useful when it doesn't even include a URL? My
best guess is that they are trying to poision my Bayes or my auto-whitelist,
so that their next message might get through. Either that, or they are just
really incompetent spammers.
Probably the latter, or a bug in their spam generating software.
I certainly wouldn't expect an AWL poisoning attempts with that line of
porn text at the top. If you're going to poison someone's AWL, you want a
message with no trace of spam hits in it.
I also don't really suspect any kind of "long term bayes poison" attempt.
Most bayes poison works best when it is "fresh" and hasn't been used
before. Doing it this way risks detection and manual training which would
heavily impair any follow-on mails with the same bayes tokens.
