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Posted by Colin Wilson on 11/16/06 00:05
> 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?
Anti-spam filters have little or no understanding of the context and
words that might be used in a genuine email, and as such they are quite
easily "tricked" into letting the "dictionary file" shite through.
As most users use an html based email program (all html email should be
BANNED btw - plain text only* should be used/allowed !) their email
program simply bypasses the dictionary shite, and displays only the html
content which appears further on in the email.
* particularly any financial institution** or website that requires the
user to log in - and as part of that, all tracking links should be
banned too, as they can obscure the true destination of a link.
** Morgan Stanley and the Banking Ombudsman got a piece of my mind a
while ago when I received html email from an unknown third party which
happened to be based outside the UK - the obscured (tracking) links
given were via yet another third party to the sender of the email.
The email was _genuine_ - talk about bad f*cking practice and fraud !
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