[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The same can be said for any spam blockling technique: It's effective > until they work around it.
Except that ratware producers are now seasoned by 4+ years of battle with anti-spam technology, so they are more likely to think of these things and implement workarounds quickly. > How long would it take for spammers to start generating a new graphic for > each message? I expect some ratware is already doing that. You don't need a whole new graphic to defeat hashing; just adding random noise to the least-significant few bits of each pixel would work fine. > How much would it slow down the sending for them to do so? None at all. See my other post: Anti-spam technologists must assume that spammers have practically unlimited computing power and bandwidth. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang