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Posted by Jerry Brown on 11/15/06 22:49
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:08:30 -0000, "Dr Zoidberg"
<alexNOOOOOO!!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote:
>Tricky Dicky wrote:
>> I also get completely meaningless chunks of text - obviously
>> generated by a program that is randomly taking words from a
>> dictionary file.
>> What is the point? I can just about understand that some fuckwit does
>> think that if 1 in 1,000,000 people does click a hyperlink to an
>> on-line pharmacy it was worthwhile, but a random load of words?
>>
>The most common spam these days is a HTML message with a gif file displaying
>the actual spam and a bunch of random text hidden in the source code to try
>and fool mail filters that do text analysis.
>
>If you have emails set to display in plain text only then you'll just get
>the gibberish
Some of them do, however, include a helpful line of clear text above
the gibberish suggesting that you get a "better" email client
(presumably meaning Outlook Express).
>, and quite often the spammers haven't got the hand of their
>spam-bots and send out "broken" emails all by themselves
Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)
<http://www.jwbrown.co.uk>
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