Sorry to destroy a perfectly good consipiracy theory, but I suspect your code is merely random letters put there by whatever mass mailer the person used as an automatic defense against spam filters.
In trying to set up a site's spam filter to actually be useful, I've been learning more about the inner workings of spam than I want to know. I get a lot of spam that has stuff like that, usually in the form of html comments between the letters in common spam words. i.e., incr(!-- dkasdjfi dkjina lovjhoirj dkjkrgtuturi --)ease you(!-- dkfjirg llgihpkmhtgxcxi wriuworuo --)r m(!-- ldfk kdgfuer kd aiteh --)ake mon(!-- dslga gke oairg nkrdjaioiu --)ey no(!-- dskjf wiuerth lsppoaer--)w. The break placement is random, and the filler is random, and what's a poor spam filter set to flag phrases like "increase your" and "make money" to do? In most mailers, you don't see the html comment field, and you're left wondering why your filter let this stuff with "increase your" and "make money" through. You probably weren't ever supposed to see the garbage. What spam filters need is a dictionary. I could get rid of the majority of my spam if I could just filter out anything that contained 20% or fewer real words in its words... I've gotten these weird spam emails which, if you look at the pure ascii source, appear to be simply random single words like "houston", "honor", "imbecile" and a few others. Not sure what message I'd see if I looked under html, because I generally won't look at suspect spam in html unless the source gives me reason to believe it's a real message. I suspect, however, I'd see something completely different. The "symptom" at the end of yours remind me of those. If you still have the original, go see what the ascii source looks like. Might look like the "code" and some binary stuff that includes the real message. Amanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 5:20 PM Subject: Very interesting emails.... > > > Occasionally I get some interesting emails that land in my inbox. Below > is one that some friends and I tried to crack the code at the bottom of > the page. Anyone here care to take a shot at it? > > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Warp Watch Needed psprkcqpqf oztkk > Importance: High > <snip> > symptom > lst h ir wv yydurv > akyiqnli ciaxssvg guitkgqivzzsdfoz > htsr jwyhhm xxrahrvd > nyebx > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
