[TriLUG] OT: non-sense spam

[Mike Parkhurst]

I'm getting it to.  Even worse, I'm getting malformed SPAM.  The SPAM is 
in html format, but does not have closing body or html tags.  This 
causes Outhouse to puke and drop the connection, but naturally the users 
blame the mail server.  What a pain.

Mike

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.?
>  
>