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[Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

Steven Champeon wrote:
> 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.

That's what I get for turning images & HTML off in my mail reader.  I 
always miss the good stuff!

TaB