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Re: Spam with no purpose?
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:36:09 +0800
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004, Deepak Jain 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..
(a) kill bayesian filters - people would simply mark it as spam and then notice that their spam filters become less trustworthy. (b) list scraping - perhaps not random dictionary words (i've seen real-sounding meeting confirmation emails, for example, which a few unrelated friends of mine also received) to determine which email addresses are/aren't valid (c) Sometimes, I get spam with the above crap in the text body, but a spam-like HTML body. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <adrian () creative net au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
Current thread:
- Spam with no purpose? Deepak Jain (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Richard Welty (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Adrian Chadd (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Jerry Eyers (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Randy Bush (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? bmanning (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Randy Bush (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? Richard Cox (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? william(at)elan.net (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? Eric A. Hall (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? william(at)elan.net (Apr 01)