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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:53:02PM -0400, Beckett wrote:
> Okay, spam is really going off the deep end now.

It's just a hashbuster/bayes-poison. The idea is that if they stuff
enough random garbage into the message, you won't be able to block it on
the basis of its contents. You'll notice that there was probably a
solicitation in there, too - the noise at the top (and usually, the
bottom) is just there as noise to confuse Bayes filters and the like.

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