Spam in images

John G Walker johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Aug 1 01:44:06 CEST 2006


On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:32:53 -0700 Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:

> Seems to be a spam virus afoot the last couple of weeks which
> generates a message consisting of a rather innocuous header (as it may
> have been sent by the victims of the virus), a text/plain body part
> with lots of random, legitimate, words to stump the Bayesian filters,
> and an ad in a GIF image attachment.
> 
> What's the current best practice with these? Classify as spam, or just
> delete?
> 

What on Earth is a spam virus? A virus is a program, which is not what
you describe. What you describe sounds like most of the spam I receive.
Since it's spam, I classify it as spam,

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 All the best,
 John






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