[Gllug] What's the point of content-less Spam?

[Alistair Mann]

Thus spaketh John Winters on Monday 26 Apr 2004 16:58:
> Perusing the directory where my mail filters shove all the crap today, I
> noticed that some Spam messages now seem to consist of nothing but
> random words.  I can see the objective is to overcome Bayesian filters,
> but there seems to be nothing but random words.  One can guess from the
> title that someone is trying to sell Viagra, but there's nothing in the
> body of the message to tell you more.
>
> What's the point of Spam which goes so far to overcome your Spam filters
> that it has no message content?

One idea: $spammer would know whether the intended recipient was likely to 
have a real address by the fact that the email was accepted rather than 
rejected. Think of them as an spam version of ping!
-- 
Alistair
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