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  • From: Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] [Fwd: Thomas, Carrboro Residents / Lower Your Payments in Under 1 Minute]
  • Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:10:26 -0400 (EDT)


.:> 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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