Just saw a new spam tactic

Zack Brown zbrown at tumblerings.org
Fri Jan 31 03:06:53 CET 2003


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:40:28PM -0800, Max Rible wrote:
> I just got a piece of spam that's full of bogus HTML tags-- lots
> of </k> tags inserted in the middle of words.  The tags will be 
> ignored by most HTML renderers, but will break up the text for
> spam parsing.

Is it really necessary for Bogofilter to do anything about this? Won't
bogofilter just learn to classify email containing those kinds of tags
as spam?

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Zack Brown




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