>> The long list of random words are an attempt to 'dilute' the real
content with innocuous words in order to try and defeat anti-spam
programmes that scan a message and reject any that score higher than a
certain mark against likely spam words. The real content is usually
displayed in HTML, and
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:11 AM
Subject: RE: Off top
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
Regarding the blank emails.
I have been told by people knowledgeable in these matters that random names
are computer generated and are attached to recognised Internet Service
Providers totally automatically. Many millions of these are broadcast every
second and the law of
In fact that too is just a screen; for what exactly, I haven't been
able to determine, nor has anyone else in most cases. Careful parsing
of the headers of all these junk mails -- copies of which by the way
should be sent (with headers) to the special UCE (Unsolicited
Commercial E-mail) data
On 12/1/04 12:50 pm, "tony moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fellow Shadow Watchers,
>In common with many others these days I receive
> about 90% 'spam' with my email. Much of it is predictable rubbish but
> I'm puzzled by the number of totally blank and gibberish items.
Hi Tony,
Most of what you describe is done to fool spam filters, I think.
Many ISPs are implementing spam filters on their end to try to stem the tide
of junk mail, which overload their servers. Most of these filter programs
identify certain message elements that make them think an e-mail is spa
