Reply to chris message 9/30/2003 10:06 AM
Hi Chris- Can an AppleScript be written that says something to the effect that if a subject begins with anything but a letter of the alphabet or a word in a dictionary then Emailer will file it in a Folder of some kind? regards, doug >>But here are some examples of spam titles I just received. >> >>>=?ISO-8859-1?b?QnV5IFNpbGRlbmFmaWwgQ2l0cmF0ZSAgQ2hlYXAgQW5kIERpc2NyZXQgLSB >>>EZWxpdmVyeSBUbyBBbGwgQ291bnRyaWVz? > >This looks like a malformed email. Not overly uncommon since many >spammers write their own SMTP processing server, and they do it on the >quick and dirty so email gets broken easily. > > >>>mkbkzicbbqis >> >>>delphinhs coddingtnn zxsqtl fchqnsmvq > >>How could I ever set up mail actions that would filter titles like that, >>and I get a lot like that? I have a filter for valium, but they will >>misspell valium by one letter and slip by. It seems like the great >>majority of my spam has a title that it would be very hard to anticipate. > >These are typical tricks to get past spam filters. Either alter the >spelling of a key word, or use non sense subjects. Also, the non sense >subjects can (and in many cases are) unique strings that ID your email >address... that way, when you reply, they know who it was from, and mark >that account as known good. And the conspiricist in me says that they >also use that info to know who to flame when you forward the email to >their ISP's abuse account (since some of the ISPs that spammers use are >actually spammer friendly, and may very well share with them who >complained). > >-chris ><http://www.mythtech.net> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Doug McAdam, Pres. SSD, Inc. 705 W Foster St. Kokomo, IN 46902 phone: 765-457-8628 <> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> �What they desperately need is to know how to live their lives� they need to know who they are, to what purpose they exist, and how they should act towards one another; and, once they know the answers to these questions they need to be helped to gradually apply these answers to everyday behavior. It is to the solution of this basic problem of mankind that the greater part of all our energy and resources should be directed.... � (Nov 19/74 UHJ) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
