On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:32:07 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>Formatted spam can include pictures of words. That's a common spam >tactic - send a multipart/alternative with a text part that look like >a letter from aunt jane - and mention that you're sending a >picture. The picture part is basically a jpeg of a flyer for the spam >companies product. Such a jpg would have a lot more sharp edges than a usual photo. Also you tend to have areas of just two colours. Some edge detecting software might have a go at it. However, my rule of thumb is I would not accept photos from the general public, only from a subset of my correspondendents. That makes a photo a strong spam indicator. Then there are small corporate logos, which are innocuous. Spamnix does not have such a filtering rule. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
