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

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 26 Apr, John Winters wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 17:06, David Goodwin wrote:
> > > What's the point of Spam which goes so far to overcome your Spam filters
> > > that it has no message content?
> > 
> > Are you sure it doesn't have a picture attached, which is the "message" ?
> > 
> > (I'll assume your viewing it in e.g. mutt, or have image loading turned off)
> 
> Ah, that's a thought.  I never view e-mails with image loading turned
> on.
> 
> John
> 
   I have also received some relatively blank emails. My system does not run
anything, but it does allow me to view everything in an editor, so I can see
all strange font commands, web page references, 7-bit coded worms, and the
full header. Anything that gets past junk filtering is immediately forwarded
complete to the sender's ISP.

-- 
Chris Bell

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