[69270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Nichols)
Thu Apr 1 13:37:32 2004
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:36:46 -0800
From: Jonathan Nichols <jnichols@pbp.net>
Reply-To: jnichols@pbp.net
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <406B89EB.5090404@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Deepak Jain 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..
>
Quite often it's broken spam-ware. Ever see %RND_UC_CHAR in the subject?
Broken software. Spammer didn't even RTFM for his own ratware.
Properly trained SpamAssassin with some additional rulesets
(http://www.exit0.us) catches the vast majority of those.
-Jonathan
