Email Oddities...

[Andy Bradford]

Thus said "Andrew Hunter" on Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:29:42 MDT:

> So, what  are these random text  blurbs for? My understanding  of spam
> filters  is  minimal,  but  it  seems that  such  additions  would  be
> ineffective in bypassing such filters.

Some of the spam blocking outfits  actually fingerprint the body of spam
so that it is easily blocked by  other members that use it. i.e. instead
of publishing a list of IP addresses  that are bad, they list a bunch of
MD5 sums of messages that you can check to see whether or not you should
block it. The chances  of a legitimate email hashing the  same as a spam
is  very minimal.  My guess  is  that spammers  do this  to thwart  such
blocking attempts.

Andy
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