[69240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Wed Mar 31 22:32:58 2004
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:31:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <406B89EB.5090404@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:18:03 -0500 Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
> 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.
just out of curiosity, do you happen to use a mail reader which normally
only shows you the text portion of a mime message?
there's quite a lot of spam which has attempts at busting bayesian
filters in the text section, and the spam payload is in the html section.
richard
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