[PLUG] Spam

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 21:22, Mark Morgan wrote:
> This was an interesting spam.  It had tons of these in the middle of the 
> words of an html mail. <!--RHBuW-->
> 
> Probably to defeat searches for particular words. Though I would think 
> that the bogus html comments would flag it.

Actually, the point is to defect check-sum anti-spam tools.  These spam
mailers generate random characters so every or most messages are
different, so when Razor and DCC makes check-sums of the messages,
they're different.

Wil
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