[Gllug] re spam

[Dylan]

On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 18:20 pm, john gennard wrote:
> Have today temporarily disabled my email filters to see what what
> junk is being thrown at me. Most is as expected (drugs, sex, Nigerian
> scam etc), but there are a few where the body contains just a string
> of English words. I can see that if I try to filter for certain
> phrases contained in the body of
> an email this would not stop the thing getting through. Some contain
> a URL, and I suppose there are people who would 'have a look-see',
> but is there any other possible advantage to a spammer (other than
> bloodymindedness)?
>
> Any one know why this is done?

They're trying to get list of 'normal' words included in filter lists to 
make spam filters produce many more false positives...

Dylan

>
> John.

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