North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Spam with no purpose?
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:18:03 -0500 Deepak Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. just out of curiosity, do you happen to use a mail reader which normally only shows you the text portion of a mime message? there's quite a lot of spam which has attempts at busting bayesian filters in the text section, and the spam payload is in the html section. richard -- Richard Welty [email protected] Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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