Just saw a new spam tactic

[Chris Wilkes]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:06:53PM -0800, Zack Brown wrote:
> 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?

How many tags like that can you make?
  <f> <ff> <fff> <fa> <faa>
etc.  If you're sending out spam with fake tags in it you'll just make
up different ones for each round.  BF will never see the same token
twice.

Chris