[ale] OT: SPAM is winning

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Sun Jul 1 12:19:47 EDT 2007


Geoffrey wrote:
> Warren Myers wrote:
>> I started seeing those 1.5-2 years ago. Image spam is a PITA because too
>> often images are legit to just ignore totally :/
> 
> The reason they use images is because they can fool text based spam 
> software.
> 
> It eats up more bandwidth as well.
> 
One of the ones that I saved has the same exact content as one that I 
already deleted that had a more legit subject line and from someone that 
I knew, who would send me something along the lines of the subject. It 
actually is a scanned in image of a note advertising one of those "No 
prescription needed for prescription drugs such as Vicodin, Viagra, and 
a number of others.



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