[69238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Mar 31 22:18:57 2004
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:18:03 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Can someone explain to me (publicly or privately) why someone would send
spam with no product to sell, no position to pitch, nothing except text
designed to get by a spam filter -- without even HTML to KNOW it got by
a spam filter..
For example:
From: Joe Legitimate <jlegit@university.edu>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Subject: [dictionary word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word]
[dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word]
--- EOM ---
I don't understand why one would waste the time, if its a test, why
would it get out in public?
I would like to think I am being naive, but I just don't see the upside
unless it were particularly targeted at me or my mailserver to determine
our response or response time, etc.
Thanks in advance,
DJ
