On Tuesday 30 December 2003 01:33 pm, Discini, Sonny wrote: > Yes, I have seen similar e-mails and yes, this appears to be word list > probes to see what will and will not pass through your filter.
I don't think so. The examples I've seen here have been nothing but a string of nonsense words, with no link or web bug. A probe has to have some way of reporting success/failure, and I don't know many systems that bounce spam filter failures. They're much more likely to be attempts to poison Bayesian filters. > This also explains why the e-mail is coming from random > sources. If it came from a real address, they know that any reasonable > admin would add the domain to their block list. That much makes sense. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
