[45583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Feb 8 19:34:25 2002
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:33:40 -0500
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In message <00e801c1b0fe$e15f8580$0100007f@flex.com>, "Michael Painter" writes:
>
>Kinda' off topic, but I've seen this gibberish in many spam posts to usenet
>groups. What purpose does it serve?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Michael
>
>
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>
Some spammers add random gibberish to foil assorted anti-spam
techniques. If this gibberish is different than the gibberish the same
ad has in another newsgroup, it will appear to be a different post, and
won't be canceled.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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