It's an effort by the spammer to change the signature (checksum) of the spam email by inserting random characters. It gets around spam filters which use a signature/checksum technique. I believe the open source Vipul's Razor uses signatures.
Vijay Ramcharan -----Original Message----- From: DeVoe, Charles (PKI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT Gibberish in email [7:74740] Often in SPAM emails I get some sort of text that looks like this lmlbjot- qribr^jin(nezl(zvy -temwvnj Can anyone explain what this is? **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=74746&t=74740 -------------------------------------------------- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
