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[Jason Laughlin <jason AT jasonlaughlin.com>]

Sil Greene wrote:
> for a second I thought I'd discovered the monolith. the random words and 
> numbers aren't new, but i'd never seen the big ol' matrix of chars 
> before. --sil 

Covered in Wired late last week
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61886,00.html

Concept's still the same.  The spammers are running programs that 
produce random chunks of text to thwart the spam filters that people 
run.  I think it works once or twice, but then the client-side bayesian 
filters start filtering it correctly too.  It's possible that the server 
side ones might have more difficulty since they process everybody's mail 
and would therefore be inclined to pass more varieties of words through, 
but running your own filter like POPfile would be more selective in what 
it counts as your mail and what looks like spam.

Jason