[ale] [OT] weird spam

[Pete Hardie]

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> I've been getting some weird spam lately.  Apparently, the spammer has
> resorted to quoting English literature to get the messages through spam
> filters.
> 
> What's weird is that there is no payload evident -- no HTML, no
> attachments, no sneaky MIME stuff.  Just random, mysterious passages.
> 
> Anybody else seeing this?

I've seen it, and it may be one of 2 things:

1) 64-encoded stuff, which the reader shows only the ASCII range
2) an attempt to 'poison' Bayesian filters by getting a lot of atypical text 
classified as spam.



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