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[Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>]

.:> 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 makes sense, if all you're trying to do is defeat a filter technique.  
Is that all this stuff is?  A grand experiment by spamsters to figure out 
how to get the message through?  Seems like this technique would actually 
hamper the spammer's efforts to _reach_ _his_ _audience_.  Or am I missing 
something?

--sil

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