[TriLUG] OT: non-sense spam

[Chris Knowles]

Just went through todays list of spam, and found several (10%) that were
actual spam, with offers for the usual, but with a list of 20-50 words
at the beginning of the e-mail.

I'd go with Mr. Johnson's supposition that it's an attempt to get by
Bayesian filtering.

Good thing they passed that Can-Spam act, eh?

CJK

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 10:40, Mike Mueller wrote:
> Anybody getting non-sense spam?
> 
> Example:
> 
> Subject: bathroom exogenous frilly betwixt
> 
> Body:
> enzyme introject combustible cartoon considerate octagonal buildup crinkle 
> headwater loblolly 
> elect antiquity dumpty fink lobular hotrod entry grassy hubby 
> mcgovern caramel ephemerides limitation octant coronet finland interject 
> ontology piper
> 
> The To: list is a sequence of mindspring.com addresses whose user portion 
> have the prefix mjm in common. For example: mjm-58, mjm-st, mjm5
> 
> Is this encryption of some sort?  Sending out an encrypted message broken 
> into several emails and sending copies out like spam, then it becomes harder 
> to know who the intended target is and what the order of the messages is 
> supposed to be.  Sending like a spammer also makes it harder to know who the 
> sender is.
> 
> How does one block this kind of spam?  Searching for lack of syntactical 
> connecting words like "the", "and", "of", etc.?
> -- 
> Mike Mueller
> 324881 (08/20/2003)
> Make clockwise circles with your right foot. 
> Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air.
-- 
Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org>
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