I'm convinced that spammers are using me as a guinea pig. I'm getting hit pretty hard by just a few determined spammers at the moment who seem to vary their spam signature every day or so (they sent out through thousands of free accounts at free email providers, so can't use client DNSBL). But every now and again, I'll get a spam from them that follows pretty much the same pattern as everything else, except that the vital ingredient - the link to their spam site or any mention of what they are promoting - is not there. Just the formatting and the random words. And these mails get right through my spam filter.
It's as if they are just sending out a test run when they come up with a new pattern, to see if it increases their bounce rate or something. BAYES_99 often hits on them, but I don't want to reject email just because it hits BAYES_99. The thing is, it's difficult to classify these emails even manually as spam or not spam, so it'd be hard to come up with rules to filter them. They are once-off, so they're not "bulk" per se - and they are not promoting the spammer - they are just random words. But they are, of course, still spam to me because they are noise I didn't request. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Spam-messages-with-no-payload-tp33350242p33350242.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
