Spammers catching on

Tue Dec 17 13:28:02 CET 2002

At 07:19 AM 12/17/02, Matthias Andree wrote:

>Suzanne Skinner <tril at igs.net> writes:
>
> > Here's another case of sneaky, bayesian-filter-evading spammers. This one,
> > alas, was successful: it scored around 0.5 with Robinson-Fisher. 
> Fortunately,
> > my SpamAssassin backup (threshold 10.0) caught it with a whopping 29 point
> > score.
> >
> > *********
> >
> > <HTML><FONT  COLOR=3D"#ffffff" BACK=3D"#ffffff">the story is sad and 
> downtr=
>
>Looks like we need to kill these sections when tokenizing -- or reject
>mail with text/html parts right away.
>
>Thanks for warning us, I'll put SpamAssassin back in place.

In addition to white on white, they're apparently also using teeny, tiny 
fonts so that the hammish text doesn't show when the html is rendered.