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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Image SPAM
  • Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:29:46 -0500

on Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:05:08PM -0500, Tony Spencer wrote:
> Is anyone else having trouble with these image spams getting past
> your spam filters?

No, not much, but we don't block on content, but rather on source.

> I'm getting quite a bit of it daily and since it has random generated
> text along with a unique gif image, Mail.app and Thunderbird are
> unable to spot it as Junk. I can't think of a way to deal with it
> other than writing a rule to mark all messages as Junk if they have a
> gif attached but that could mean that a lot of legit mail never makes
> it to me.

Yep. That's one reason why content blocks suck.

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