Posted by Gary on 11/16/06 10:36

we had a couple of weeks where we were getting 2000 email bounces an hour
sent to our domain email address. 24 hours a day that's a lot of extra
spam. and caused us some mailbox hassle.


"Colin Wilson" <void@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>> 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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