Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-07-01 Thread Philip Prindeville
Loren Wilton wrote: No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a legitimate alternative representation of text? Doesn't really help. The

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-26 Thread Loren Wilton
No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a legitimate alternative representation of text? Doesn't really help. The actual mails have a tiny

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: the text and the images. The spammers send multipart/alternative because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes filters, since they know it won't be rendered... It seems to me that right there is the spam sign you should be

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
John D. Hardin wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: the text and the images. The spammers send multipart/alternative because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes filters, since they know it won't be rendered... It seems to me that right there is the

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: The spammers send multipart/alternative because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes filters, since they know it won't be rendered... It seems to me

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: The spammers send multipart/alternative because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes filters, since they

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, David B Funk wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:49:17PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a legitimate alternative

RE: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:10 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: On bichromatic GIF stock spam I get a lot of spam that looks like: http://pastebin.com/729105 on the alsa-devel mailing

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:10 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: On bichromatic GIF stock spam I get a lot of spam that looks like: http://pastebin.com/729105 on the

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Loren Wilton
If, after excluding black, we find that 100% of the color map is that nasty pastel pink or pastel lime green (etc) then it's a spam and we toss it. Sound reasonable? I was thinking about this the other day. I think the concept is reasonable, but as stated doesn't go far enough, and would be

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
Loren Wilton wrote: If, after excluding black, we find that 100% of the color map is that nasty pastel pink or pastel lime green (etc) then it's a spam and we toss it. Sound reasonable? I was thinking about this the other day. I think the concept is reasonable, but as stated doesn't go