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Re: Spam with no purpose?
From: Richard Welty <rwelty () averillpark net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:31:00 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:18:03 -0500 Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net> 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 <jlegit () university edu> To: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net> 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 rwelty () averillpark net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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