[TriLUG] OT: non-sense spam

Mike Mueller linux-support at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 8 12:11:13 EST 2004


On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:11, Mike Johnson wrote:
> Mike Mueller [linux-support at earthlink.net] wrote:
> > Is this encryption of some sort?  Sending out an encrypted message broken
> > into several emails and sending copies out like spam, then it becomes
> > harder to know who the intended target is and what the order of the
> > messages is supposed to be.  Sending like a spammer also makes it harder
> > to know who the sender is.
>
> My guess is that these are an attempt to screw with Bayesian filters.
> These get loaded as spam, and then the filters are loaded with just
> random crap.  They'll eventually not recognize true spam.
>
> Some random thoughts, on random spam...

C'mon. Were on orange alert. Encrypted messages are more intriquing.  You 
know...chatter.

I wonder if this could be flushed by sidelining anything that arrives with a 
list of names in the To or CC field.  Since I no longer work as a direct 
employee for a major corp I don't get legitimate emails from internal mass 
mailers (corporate spammers :-).
-- 
Mike Mueller
324881 (08/20/2003)
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