Just went through todays list of spam, and found several (10%) that were actual spam, with offers for the usual, but with a list of 20-50 words at the beginning of the e-mail.
I'd go with Mr. Johnson's supposition that it's an attempt to get by Bayesian filtering. Good thing they passed that Can-Spam act, eh? CJK On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 10:40, Mike Mueller wrote: > Anybody getting non-sense spam? > > Example: > > Subject: bathroom exogenous frilly betwixt > > Body: > enzyme introject combustible cartoon considerate octagonal buildup crinkle > headwater loblolly > elect antiquity dumpty fink lobular hotrod entry grassy hubby > mcgovern caramel ephemerides limitation octant coronet finland interject > ontology piper > > The To: list is a sequence of mindspring.com addresses whose user portion > have the prefix mjm in common. For example: mjm-58, mjm-st, mjm5 > > Is this encryption of some sort? Sending out an encrypted message broken > into several emails and sending copies out like spam, then it becomes harder > to know who the intended target is and what the order of the messages is > supposed to be. Sending like a spammer also makes it harder to know who the > sender is. > > How does one block this kind of spam? Searching for lack of syntactical > connecting words like "the", "and", "of", etc.? > -- > Mike Mueller > 324881 (08/20/2003) > Make clockwise circles with your right foot. > Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air. -- Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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