Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? aren't those digits the password for a password protected Bagle variant? I'd bet some braindead AV strips the infected attachements and lets

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? aren't those digits the password for a password protected

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/5/2006 11:02 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? aren't those

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:16:15 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 11:02 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/5/2006 11:26 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:16:15 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 11:02 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Yet Another Ninja wrote: Just found a few ... sent directly from DULs. (there went my theory...) :-( I have a theory that spammers are either doing some sort of probe or sending out nonspam so that ther headers are learned by bayes as good. I think it's either probes or bayes poison.

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:51:06 -0800, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet Another Ninja wrote: Just found a few ... sent directly from DULs. (there went my theory...) :-( I have a theory that spammers are either doing some sort of probe or sending out nonspam so that ther headers

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Evan Platt wrote: At 10:27 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? See thre thread earlier today spam But there is no conclusion or discussion on what the point of

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Loren Wilton
But there is no conclusion or discussion on what the point of that type of message is. I would bet there is at least one person on this list that knows the real answer. But I strongly suspect he/she is a lurker and doesn't post. That said, this shows all the signs of being a spam run

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Jack L. Stone
On 5 Dec 2006 at 20:50, Loren Wilton wrote: But there is no conclusion or discussion on what the point of that type of message is. I would bet there is at least one person on this list that knows the real answer. But I strongly suspect he/she is a lurker and doesn't post. That

5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-04 Thread Marc Perkel
Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it?

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-04 Thread Evan Platt
At 10:27 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? See thre thread earlier today spam