But how does a spam filter catch this (referenced) message? There was no subject to the message.
The only content to the message was a URL. The text of the URL was entirely "cryptic," i.e., it gave no hint whatsoever of the content of the web page that the URL links to. The only way that a spam filter could evaluate the link would be for the spam filter to open the link and evaluate the content found at the link. Do any spam filters do that now? If so, it must be a very time consuming process for the spam filter. I suppose that the spam filter could evaluate a link once, and then react to each appearance of the link (in many messages) IAW a stored evaluation of the link. Could the spammer generate a different link for each message, or at least many different links to the one page (through redirectlon)? This is the first spam message of this type (having the above-listed characteristics) that I've seen. It could have had a benign/misleading subject, rather than no subject, and still the spam filter would have nothing to work on without opening the link and evaluating the web page's content. Fred Holmes At 09:26 AM 2/15/2010, tjpa wrote: >On Feb 15, 2010, at 7:23 AM, John Emmerling wrote: >>Is this a first for ComputerGuys-L? > >Spam is indeed rare around here -- thanks to AOL's filters. > >Jack has been subscribed since 1999 so I suspect that his PC is pwned. >If we get more of this I will put him on moderation. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
