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Spam with no purpose?

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Wed Mar 31 22:21:05 2004


Can someone explain to me (publicly or privately) why someone would send spam with no product to sell, no position to pitch, nothing except text designed to get by a spam filter -- without even HTML to KNOW it got by a spam filter..

For example:

From: Joe Legitimate <[email protected]>
To: Deepak Jain <[email protected]>
Subject: [dictionary word]

[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word]

--- EOM ---

I don't understand why one would waste the time, if its a test, why would it get out in public?

I would like to think I am being naive, but I just don't see the upside unless it were particularly targeted at me or my mailserver to determine our response or response time, etc.

Thanks in advance,

DJ