Posted by Dr Zoidberg on 11/15/06 21:08

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 , and quite often the spammers haven't got the hand of their
spam-bots and send out "broken" emails all by themselves

--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

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