Chr. von Stuckrad wrote:
Hi!
I'm just curious whether a very strange spam is send to 'many' users. Today many addresses here were hit by absolutely *useless* messages, which *look* like real spam, as long as you look at the subject, which ist the often recurring theme of 'telephone-cd with reverse search enabled'. But looking IN the mail I find absolutely no real content, no contacts whatsoever, just snippets of sentences and words, all german, all semantically unconnected.
Is this done to posion bayes before 'the real spam' arrives? So far spamassassin did *not* react on those Mails, having no clue that it might be spam (it has some trouble with german anyway).
Should I stop 'autolearnig' to avoid repercussions of this?
Stucki (postmaster at math/inf/mi.fu-berlin.de)
It sounds to me like they are just trying to verify email addresses.
As far as bayes poisoning, it actually helps bayes to get emails like that.
Just my 0.02 euros.
